Who ever would have thought you would hear those three names grouped together?
Every week Google details the most popular searches that go through their site. In this column, I will be detailing the correlations between the Google Zeitgeist and Blogcritics stories. I find the waves of popularity in search terms to be fascinating and I think the correlations to Blogcritics material will be interesting.
Sometimes the correlations will be obvious like when the Janet Jackson thing happened, and I had just happened to write a story about that Super Bowl halftime show before it happened and a traffic landslide ensued. Other times we have stories that pre-date the appearance of a search item on the list and it will be interesting to look at an old Blogcritics story through the lens of more recent developments.
On with the list for the week ending January 9, 2006
1. vince young
2. texas longhorns
3. emily stern
4. dancing with the stars
5. marcus vick
6. CES
7. lindsay lohan
8. wedding crashers
9. martin luther king
10. bird flu
11. USC
12. isla fisher
13. detroit auto show
14. lou rawls
15. drake bell
And now for the Blogcritics stories on Vince Young, Lindsay Lohan, and Martin Luther King
1. Vince Young
The breakout performance in the national championship football game has led to this entry.
- Hype Machine Breaks Down in Rose Bowl
If there is one lesson that needs to be learned by the national pundits after Texas’ “shocking” win over Southern California in the Rose Bowl, it is this:
No one knows anything.
The back-to-back Heisman Trophy winners couldn’t save the Trojans Wednesday...
Posted to Sports by Zach Baker on January 5, 2006 09:19 AM (Relevance: 1)
A Dynasty Falls - Longhorns Win Title
It didn’t take quite as long as the ten years Homer described, but the result was the same. The walls of Troy crumbled and one is left standing.
In this case they hail from Austin, Texas.
For a second consecutive...
Posted to Sports by Dan McGowan on January 5, 2006 03:37 AM (Relevance: 2)
Bevo’s Back in Beverly Hills
Granted, while I was in school we lost to OU every year and had our share of heartbreaking games, I am still proud to be a Texas Longhorn. While most in my family were Sooners or Razorbacks, I stood...
Posted to Sports by Erin McMaster on December 4, 2005 12:57 AM (Relevance: 2)
Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
Why does this post exist? Seems like a naked ploy to encourage Blogcritics writers to conform to the "popular." And to add internal links for no real reason at all.
Spefically if you're talking about "Google Zeitgeist" the post makes almost no sense when you pull posts from 2003 and 2004.
Thumbs down. Leave it in the Yahoo group for the handful that care.
2 - Temple Stark
In extra words, the set up was badly written.
- Temple, the blatantly helpful
3 - Eric Berlin
Great job Craig, it's always weird and mundane and fascinating all at once to see what people en masse are most searching for.
4 - Dave Nalle
Well Temp, they didn't pull my MLK day post from last year, so clearly there's a problem.
Dave
5 - Craig Lyndall
It isn't a ploy for anything except that I found the Zeitgeist interesting and wondered what the archives would hold for some of the topics. As this continues, I will take suggestions as to what I need to do to improve it.
By the way, the connection between current events and what has happened with a person or thing in the past is interesting because we seem to selectively rewrite past history when it suits our fancy.
Also, sorry if your entry didn't show up. I tried to search just on the same search terms that showed up on the list. I admit that I cheated a little bit with Vince Young by searching for Texas Longhorns, but I didn't think it was totally unfair as it was the number 2 item on the list.
Craig
6 - DJRadiohead
I like this idea. To be honest, I am still going to write about things that interest me regardless of whether or not they become the big 'search engine' hit of the century. Still, doing something like this is one more way to help people find what they are looking for. That can't be a bad thing.
7 - Scott Butki
Exactly. I'm with DJ on this.