the buzz log
Neda, JibJab, Greenland: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Mon, June 22, 2009, 10:25 am PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Neda (Searches increased by 1,106%). A cellphone video purports to show a woman killed at an Iranian protest. "Neda" has become a rallying cry in Iran, and the disturbing video has gone viral.
- Walter Cronkite biography (+846%). The 92-year-old former CBS anchor is gravely ill.
- JibJab Obama video (+828%). The latest spoof from JibJab tweaks the president as an enormous-eared superhero who fights pirates and can fix healthcare in a single bound.
- Chupacabra (+153%). Claims of sightings of the mythical "goat sucker" beast persist.
- Greenland (+138%). After 300 years of Danish rule, the island has won its independence.
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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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