As I mentioned in my article, Leveraging Google’s Zeitgeist, incorporating up and coming search terms can give your blog a search engine boost. I hadn't looked at any of the search terms recently and was surprised when I brought up the zeitgeist today. It has been replaced!
From the zeitgeist page:
On May 22, 2007, the original Google Zeitgeist for Google.com was replaced by Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends. Visit Hot Trends for regular updates throughout the day into what people are searching for on Google.
Browsing through the hot trends, I was amused by number "82. britney spears thong bikini". A whole lot of people must be looking for this for it to pop up in the top 100 searches. Further investigation revealed numbers "55. britney spears puerto vallarta" and "25. britney spears mexico". Curious as always, I clicked on number 82. Aha! Britney Spears wore a thong bikini to the beach in Mexico and some paparazzi snapped a picture. The number 1 result talked about it but the number 2 result had pictures.
Is this what's hot in the USA? Frankly, I'm amazed that people are still interested in Britney after all the shenanigans she's been involved in.
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This is a subtle hint to Sean at Geek With Laptop that I'm impatiently awaiting the categories version of SRG Clean Archives. If and when he completes it, I plan to remove the "Archives" and "Categories" widgets from my sidebar and change the names of the "Extended Archives" and "Extended Categories" pages to replace them completely.
