Trends

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Every once in a while, I check out Google trends. I tend to be hopelessly outclassed when it comes to- oh, I don’t know- knowing what people think is topical.

I mean, I was the girl with the red Devo jumpsuit in high school. I was either really edgy, or so far out of it that I would never reenter orbit. So it is no wonder that a good half of the trending terms are things I have never heard of.

Leaving aside the sports and the sex trends, neither of which I would expect to be familiar with, and you get these, for example:

• We’ve got Miley Cyrus dead. I hadn’t heard of that, and just as well- it isn’t true.
• When appulous was tiny – the rest of this is: it ran on a VPS provided by __________.com. Okay, I am not as smart as I thought I was.
• Gus is a bug – children’s book… why?

Does it have anything to do with this:

• Kelly blue book, BJ Wholesale Club Locations, sams club, jet blue reservations, black friday 2009 walmart ad, washington state unemployment: all indicative of the times, I’d say
• Chimpanzee rips womans face off- at least they are spelling “chimpanzee” correctly, although who am I to mock voyeurism, given the subject of this post?

In one sense, I am missing it all, because what I would consider my personal trending topics just aren’t important enough to make it here. But it feels good to swim in the mainstream for a bit.

But- as an aside- what I see here backs up an observation that Rob Hahn had made in a post (although I couldn’t find it to link here).  People know what they want to find when they search- they just need to know where to get it. They aren’t cruising around with a vague idea of what they are interested in. They know specifically what they want to learn more about. They aren’t checking out primate behavior – they are tracking down Chimpanzee rips womans face off.

Or more appropriate in a business sense- they aren’t searching “real estate.” They want to find “3 bedroom homes in downtown Shirley, MA.”

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