The Internet Has Made Us All Sickos

I don't know what brought me to Googletrendstoday, but I found myself reading over the list of the top 100 phrases that had been searched on Google in the last 57 minutes @ 3:00pm on 8/20/09. Many of the items I expected, given what I had heard on NPR that morning. Things like "powerball winner" "chesterton tornado", "world s cheapest car", and "octomom".

I listened to Howard Stern this morning as well. He had Rob Zombie on with his wife Sheri Moon. He also talked about Shawn King, Larry King's wife. All three of these names were in the top 50 searches. Again, not surprising,

Also not surprising were searches related to Caster Semenya. She/He/It is an Olympic hopeful that has been setting crazy women's track records recently and has now come under investigation by the IAAF because they aren't sure what Caster's gender is.

Now as difficult as this may sound for Caster, take a look at these photos and maybe you can understand where the IAAF is coming from.

Notice anything strange about this person?

Am I imagining it, or is there a bulge in the normally budge-free area on a woman? Power of suggestion perhaps? Probably not.

This story, Casters ambiguous gender, leads into another topic; ambiguous genitalia. Ambiguous genitalia was the number 2, 4 and 8 searches during about a 4 hour period this morning. If you follow a link to the search for the term "ambiguous genitalia" you will understand whyThe Internet Has Made Us All Sickos.Do you really need to do an image search to see pictures of semi-penises and proto-vages? You can't just imagine what they look like, you actually need to see a set of labia with a 4" clitoris/penis and mini balls that look like really bad hemorrhoids? Who needs that? I sure the hell don't.

But apparently its just the sickos that use Google who do, because Yahoo!'s top searches for the day did not include Caster, ambiguous genitalia or anything remotely interesting.

Actually the people that use Yahoo! must be teenage girls, stay at home moms and video game geeks because the top searches were Twitter, Big Brother, Brittney Spears and several entries related to the new Playstation 3.

One other interesting note is that the number 17 search on Yahoo! for this day was for its rival Bing.

Back to Google for a few last thoughts; at the time this was written the Ryan Jenkins story was breaking so everyone was searching for crap with his name or "i love money" in the search term, but the funniest search term was "white people stole my car".

Lastly, since I hate sports in generally and deliberately don't know sport figures, their names, records or affiliations I had to google IAAF, which was not one of the top 100 terms.

With all due respect,
The Chief