the buzz log
What’s the Buzz: Spiders, Festivals, and Hurricanes
… A spider beside her. It's bug season, and lots of alarmed spider-phobes sent "hobo spider" to the top of Search. Word has it that the arachnid, a rare poisonous creepy crawler with a flesh-eating chomp, was the prime suspect "for a gaping wound in a woman's leg," according to the Globe and Mail. The horror!
…Viva Venice. George Clooney and Brad Pitt added their star power to the Venice Film Festival this week. Film buffs sent "venice film fest" up 858% in Search, along with "brad pitt," "brad pitt movies," "george clooney," and their new movie,"Burn After Reading." Bravissimo!
...Story of a hurricane. On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, armchair meterologists searched for information on that storm's impact, bumping up searches for "hurricane katrina path," "new orleans newspaper," and "hurricane preparedness." Those concerned with the growing threat of "Hurricane Gustav" are keeping an eye on the impending storm with searches on "gustav tracking." Brace yourselves.
Filed under: Recaps, Hurricanes, Spiders
Spidey Sense
Spinning a web through search, spiders are a creepy subject weaving buzz from curious bug watchers. After reading a news item about the slow evolution of the spider web, we were intrigued enough to analyze arachnid searches. Scientists may be able to trace the origin of the orb-style spider web back 110 million years, but our research into the top spider searches is a lot more timely. It's from last week. We ask your understanding as we present the top 20 spiders scurrying through Buzz...
top movers
| Rank | Subject | 1-Day Move |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nidal Malik Hasan | Breakout! |
| 2 | Fort Hood Shooting | Breakout! |
| 3 | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Breakout! |
| 4 | Fort Hood | 43518% |
| 5 | Tropical Storm Ida | 4377% |
| 6 | Willie Aames | 3325% |
| 7 | Shannon Dedrick | 3299% |
| 8 | Gretchen Rossi | 2702% |
| 9 | Epic Mickey | 2583% |
| 10 | Lee Harvey Oswald | 1907% |
top leaders
| Rank | Subject | Move | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danica Patrick | +194 | 207 |
| 2 | Fort Hood | +185 | 185 |
| 3 | Angelina Jolie | +114 | 164 |
| 4 | Rihanna | +39 | 157 |
| 5 | New York Yankees | +54 | 154 |
| 6 | Alicia Keys | +139 | 153 |
| 7 | +1 | 153 | |
| 8 | NFL | +6 | 138 |
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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