We thought we knew what we’d find when we checked to see what people were most interested in over the past week, based on what they searched for online. We were surprised by all but the #1 entry on Yahoo’s Buzz Log, which was “After Christmas Sales”. Those searches increased by 712%!
Not terribly surprising were searches for how to make Eggnog (up 489%) and, up 258%, “Obama Christmas Card”. But we were surprised to find that also in the top five were the trailer for “Sex and the City 2” (up 668%) and “Giant Squid”—up 480%!
Those are strange juxtapositions.
So we thought we’d check other such sites to see what else people might be thinking about in the days between Christmas and the new year.
Alexa.com’s list of what’s hot shows that movies, videogames, and sports are on people’s minds.
Digg.com’s community of people who give certain topics the thumbs-up seem to be more concerned with low-cost health care, New York not being iPhone ready, travel photos, the cost of legalizing marijuana, and neuroscientists’ breakthroughs on short-term memory.
Care2.com’s news network, is “socially conscious news and video shared and rated by the community”. Some of the top stories there include: “100 Excellent Twitter Feeds for Tech-Savvy Students”, beached whales in New Zealand, a newly discovered bird species, oil spills off the Alaskan coast, and a Christmas tree made from Recycled bottles.
So there you have it! The more we become accustomed to getting information with internet speed, the further our interests seem to range!
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