I keep a Google Trends Gadget on my iGoogle search page to check out what the world cares about. Todays Top ten had me laughing.
First off, far too many people are watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" Not only that, they are cheating while playing at home. If you have to use Google then you aren't.
Second, I was intrigued by todays #6 entry. Searching on it didn't explain much until I came across this at xkcd.com.
Nicely done, not only is it funny (as always with xkcd) , it also skewed Google's trend tracker. XKCD is one of my favorites and it's worth anyones time who enjoys geek humor. If you've never seen it before, be prepared to waste the next hour or so of your life.
MrCopilot
update 8:20am: There are now 1440 results from google making it the # 1 most dangerous on the list. I'm glad my warped sense of humor is shared.
update 24 hrs later: Over 7,ooo results. I should really think about getting out of such a dangerous business.
Update 8:15pm Just for Ken.: 11,600 Results
Friday, January 11, 2008
Died in a Blogging Accident
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24 comments:
+1. Copied your post to my LJ :)
I wonder how much people died in a googling accident in process.
google currently returns 3000 results for "died in a blogging accident". soon to be more, in part because of this current comment he he
o heck, how about one more:
died in a blogging accident
d8
incidentally, "died in a knitting accident has gone up quite a bit for some strange reason
According to Gawker, this guy died from blogging, and the Gawker poster might be next to go. It's not exactly "died in a blogging accident" but it's pretty close...
And they posted it a few days before the XKCD strip, so maybe that was part of his inspiration?
As of right now, "died of a blogging accident" still returns exactly 1 result.
@anonymous:
try googling "died *in* a blogging accident"- it makes a lot of difference d8
current count is now 8080 and pretty much leveled off
As of now 8100, though 5 minutes ago I counted 8110. It peaked already, but a post on Slashdot might change it again...
As of now 11000 since it was digged too
@ anonymous:
i dunno- i'm only getting 8010 results. but maybe you're using a newer version of google d8
I had that number few minutes ago.
Try reloading.
Now it went down a little
As of now 10900
@anonymous:
do you believe in paralell universes? cuz i think that's what we're in (:
i just used the link from your comments and all i got wuz 1830...
There you go Ken. Screenshot.
buwaaaahhhh...
now i know i'm in a parlell universe...
my google's broken- i can't get over 8k ):
may be google dance. it's over 12k hits here, and btw mrcopilot is ranked first
Currently 277,000 pages, and your blog is first :)
What I'd like to know is which websites were the original 2 results.
The original 2 posts were about death by blogging, but didn't list anyone having died.
MySpace deaths can probably be considered death by blogging.
There's also a list of possible ways to die via blogging accident here.
I'm also fan of XKCD... and now its 45,500!!!
The sad thing is that now it is almost impossible for anyone to know what the two original hits were when Randall did the search...
Still going strong. As of now, 49200 hits, which makes bloging some 50 times more dangerous than skiing.
274000 hits. Brace yourselves, she's gonna blow!
287,000. That's insane, I'm never going to blog again. However, I haven't seen too many results when searching for "velociraptor invasion prevention tactics". Russel, take note. Someone has been neglecting their self-defense methods.
It's dropping...
Results 1 - 10 of about 269,000 for died in a blogging accident. (0.08 seconds
...Come on, people, let's push this higher. I want to see "died in a blogging accident" hit 500k. :D
Результаты 1 - 10 из примерно 50 200 для "died in a blogging accident". (0,28 секунд)
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