the buzz log
Fiat, Dick Cheney, Space Shuttle: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Mon, May 11, 2009, 10:40 am PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Fiat 500 (Searches increased by 441%). The future of American autos seems to rest on the cute frame of this Italian minicar.
- Dick Cheney (+299%). The former veep says the controversial radio personality Rush Limbaugh is the future of the Republican Party, not moderate Colin Powell (who backed Obama over McCain).
- Space Shuttle launch (+270%). The last mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled for today. The long-planned trip aims to fix up the observatory station.
- "SNL" (+137%). The comedy sketch show will be adding a prime-time special to air this month, "Saturday Night Live Just Shorts." Andy Samberg will host.
- Halle Berry baby (+265). The star and her baby girl caught buzz in a photo stand-off with the Paparazzi.
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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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