the buzz log
Tracy Pollan, Anniversaries, Haiku: What's the Buzz
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
1. Tracy Pollan (Searches increased 60,017%). The missus to Michael J. Fox played the mother on "Natalee Holloway," the Lifetime channel's take on what happened to the missing Alabama girl.
2. Oklahoma City Bombing (+752%). In a grim anniversary week that includes Tiananmen Square protests and the Columbine High shootings, people observed the April 19, 1995 domestic attack on the downtown federal building.
3 Tony Mandarich (+748%). As NFL draft buzz builds, the 1989 offensive line prospect captured the dubious number one spot in a list of picks that didn't quite hold up to their promise.
4. Kitchen Countertops (+667%). Ah, spring, when thoughts turn to ripping the house apart. Better have the BBQ handy.
5. Haiku Poems (+134%).
tugs at Web's rhythms.
This is what you get.
Filed under: Sports, TV, Recaps, Poetry, Home and Garden, Anniversaries
Popular Poems For Mom
Searches on "mother's day poems" have entered our top 300 terms and are up 246% over the past week. One oddity we noticed in looking deeper at the data—79% of the searchers looking for mom-related poems are women.
Are daughters the only ones who regale their mothers with verse? C'mon guys, let's see your sensitive side! If you're in need of ideas, here are a few more poetry suggestions fresh from the Buzz...
When it comes to expressing affection for dear ol' mom, folks love a well-crafted verse. We're seeing a variety of queries from aspiring bards spike as we head closer to Mother's Day.
Today's search spikes on Mother's Day poems offer an interesting blend of motherly love in two languages...
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Filed under: Mother's Day, Poetry
Rhyming and Searching
Poetry can be beautiful. It can express truth, love, despair, and hope. Unfortunately, such poems are rare. The vast majority—those seen on MySpace blogs and in the locked diaries of 14-year-olds, are actually pretty awful.
Now, with Valentine's Day approaching, we're seeing a surge in poetry searches. Old standards like "love poems" and "friendship poems" are on the rise, but so are some unusual curiosities ("baby shower poems," anyone?). Mixing the popular with the weird, we've tracked down the top 30 poem searches for your reading and rhyming pleasure...
Filed under: Poetry
Green, Green Everywhere
Recent news of a green puppy (+66%) born to a normal-colored golden retriever in California filled our heads with zany visions worthy of any children's book. "Clifford the Big Red Dog" meets "Green Eggs and Ham," maybe?
Our creative juices flowing, we decided to compose our own rhyme. Hardly a Seuss or Sendak classic, but we did our best. In homage to Wasabi the green puppy, we somewhat proudly present a Buzz Log ditty in celebration of a few of the top "greens" in Search...
| Green, Green Everywhere |
| Green, green puppy, have you seen? You love Green Day if you're a teen. Is your team the Green Bay Packers? Do you like green tea and crackers? Eva Green, she's such a dream. Tom Green's jokes will make you scream. With a green card, can't go wrong. With Al Green we sing along. At Bowling Green, to set you right, You may learn Gawain's Green Knight. Green sea turtles swim about. Green Street Hooligans fight and shout. A million searches here and there. At the Buzz, we stop and stare. Please believe us if you dare, There's just green, green everywhere! |
Filed under: Poetry
top movers
| Rank | Subject | 1-Day Move |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ford 400 | Breakout! |
| 2 | Indonesia Ferry | Breakout! |
| 3 | Jordan Chandler | 3481% |
| 4 | Evan Chandler | 2322% |
| 5 | American Music Awards | 1841% |
| 6 | John F. Kennedy | 1529% |
| 7 | Turkey Stuffing Recipes | 1361% |
| 8 | Liam Hemsworth | 1172% |
| 9 | Lou Dobbs | 1142% |
| 10 | Hendrick Motorsports | 888% |
top leaders
| Rank | Subject | Move | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Friday | +340 | 1290 |
| 2 | NFL | +489 | 670 |
| 3 | Jennifer Lopez | +451 | 515 |
| 4 | New Moon | -67 | 250 |
| 5 | American Music Awards | +236 | 249 |
| 6 | UFC | -36 | 239 |
| 7 | Miley Cyrus | +66 | 169 |
| 8 | Hulu | -11 | 154 |
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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