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Sunday 17 April 2011

Keywords of the day

Quality doesn't matter on the Internet anymore, keywords do. 

Google does this wolderful Google Trends thing, and gives you a list of 20 most popular keywords in searches, updated every hour.

I want those keywords here.

Unfortunately, I'm not cynical enough to simply copy and paste and forget that someone is going to read that.  I'll get there eventually.

Some of those keywords were all Greek to me at the first sight.  Some proved to include tasty stories and pieces of information. 

I'll get my keywords, you get the stories.  Deal?


1. Chris Paul - a basketball player currently in New Orleans' Hornets.  Today's performance in a game against LA Lakers caused instant love of web users.

2. 420 - that was a surprise.  Apparently 420 is a short for cannabis culture.  Who would've thought?  In the 70's, in California, a bunch of teenagers were to meet at 4:20 to search for an abandoned ganja field they'd learned about.  420 became their codename and you know how ideas spread...  And why today?  April 20 is celebrated worldwide as a Cannabis Day.  I guess people are getting ready to go out on the streets and are looking for witty banner slogans...

3. Juno - NASA's next big thing.  A solar powered spaceship will be sent to Jupiter to learn more about this gigantic planet.  Today the spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Centre for final preparations.

4. Burn Notice - an American TV series, a 'spy-gets-screwed-by-his-employers' type.  Apparently a new episode goes on TV tonight and people are quite excited about it.

5. Passover - Jewish Easter.  Hopefully I'm not commiting any blasphemy in saying so.  Funny enough, Easter did not make it to the first twenty.

6. Talladega - a city in Alabama, US.  Population: a bit more than 15,000.  Home to a Talladega Superspeedway, 4.28 km long racing track with a seating capacity of 175,000.  It's a race day today!

7. Lil B - a rapper from California.  Today he announced that his new album will be titled 'I'm Gay'.  As in 'I'm Happy'.  And suddenly everyone wants to know about him.

8. Sidekick 4G - a brand new smartphone.  To a tech anachronist like me sounds like a codename from a spy movie, but apparently today everyone wants it.

9. The girl next door - a movie from 2004.  Also a movie from 2007.  Why is it so popular today, I have no bloody idea.

10. Passover recipes - millions of menus are being planned in advance.  A proof that some people take their holidays seriously.

11. Roger Ebert - a movie critic, who few years ago lost his ability to speak due to cancer.  He's now using computer voice generation technology to communicate and few days ago shared his experiences in a brand new talk for TEDtv.

12. San Antonio Spurs - a basketball team from Texas.  A game vs Memphis is on tonight.

Here I give up.  Only keywords from now on.

13. Superman returns.
14. War
15. Lakers
16. Elisha Cuthbert
17. Los Angeles Lakers
18. Harley Davidson
19. Holy week
20. LA Lakers