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Earlier today, I got to play Gossip Girl for a minute, when I published a series of posts on SEL, Search Engines Release Most Popular Search Trends of 2008, spotlighting the top trends in search queries on the major engines for the entire year. There’s also a few data points about online shopping and popular gifts this holiday season. I’ve always been pretty intrigued by “buzzology” and why certain topics go hot within online pop culture and the social media scene.
Near the end of every year, the SE’s release this data (I’m still waiting on Google Zeitgeist and Microsoft Live Search) typically with some analysis around the popular trends and in particular, searches for celebrity gossip. I think Yahoo! Buzz always does the best job at explaining why certain searches go popular, but I much prefer to speculate and create my own theories on occasion.
The Ask.com list of popular searches gave me the most fodder for my own commentary, but we’ll have to see what Live Search comes up with first.
Most relevant to this blog though, was AOL’s data on Top Travel Searches:
Top USA Travel Destinations
- Las Vegas
- Myrtle Beach
- Chicago
- Boston
- New York
- Washington, DC
- Niagara Falls
- Key West
- San Francisco
- Atlanta
Top International Travel Searches
- Dubai
- Australia
- London
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Cancun
- Jamaica
- Cabo San Lucas
- Paris
- Punta Cana
Since 2008 was an Olympic year, Beijing athletes fared pretty well across the board, and of course professional athletes from the NBA, NFL, MLB, WWE, NASCAR and INDY popped up. It might be a stretch to call some of those personalities action sports athletes, but I definitely respect them all for what they’ve done. I just couldn’t resist one last jab at the Brett Favre saga (even though I love him dearly), Tom Brady’s still got my vote.
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