the buzz log
Only the most ambitious of dams would dare to control China's Yangtze River. The Three Gorges Dam stretches nearly a mile and a half long, stands over 600 feet high, and attempts just that feat. And any dam that big is going to have some pretty big dam buzz, especially when there's an explosion involved.
After engineers blew up the last temporary construction barrier surrounding Three Gorges last week, searches flooded the buzz, and "three gorges dam" hit the high-water mark, up 9,600% to become the top Buzz mover of the week. We suspect many of the searchers were hoping to get a glimpse of the actual explosion when a couple hundred tons of explosives sent 6.7 million cubic feet of concrete into the Yangtze. A blast of this size is so clearly buzzworthy, it was even broadcast on national television in China.
Now that we know how dam-happy searchers are, let's dive into our top 10 dam searches...
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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