John Edwards-related curiosity reflected in Google Hot Trends
As of this posting, one measure of national interest in the story of the affair between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter is Google's Hot Trends list. Fifty fifteen of the top 25 most popular Google search terms related to the Edwards affair story, including the top five queries. Several are variations on Rielle Hunter's name: Reille is No. 1, with Riley and Real among the runners-up; and her real name, Lisa Druck, is No. 5. No. 34 is the precise-sounding "42 year old rielle hunter" — probably the result of mass copy-pasting from an online news story.
Googlers are also searching for many of the scandal's major and minor characters, including Edwards' wife, Elizabeth; Edwards' former aide Andrew Young; Hunter's newborn daughter Frances Quinn Hunter; and even Wade Edwards, the son of John and Elizabeth who was killed in a car accident in 1996.
Notably, even though it's opening day, the 2008 Olympics appear only once in the top 25, aced out by some websiteless entity called Eden Body Works.
Also worth pointing out is No. 12, "endless yard sale," which refers, apparently, to a 654-mile-long yard sale this weekend from Ohio to Alabama. But hurry before the sale ends!
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"Fifty of the top 25 most popular Google search terms"? Can the LA Times get anything right? You guys must be in a rush to put material out there now that you've been pwned by the The National Enquirer. Keep rockin!
Posted by: SlimVirgin | August 10, 2008 at 09:27 PM
SlimVirgin -- Thanks for pwning/correcting me. I have fixed what you accurately identified as an error of haste.
Posted by: David Sarno | August 10, 2008 at 09:50 PM