the buzz log
"Thriller," Sears Tower, Shaq: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Fri, June 26, 2009, 12:03 pm PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Michael Jackson "Thriller" (Searches increased by 6,796%). The pop king's sudden death sent legions of fans searching on his best-selling album of all time.
- Sears Tower (+1,401%). The tallest building in the U.S. is going green.
- Shaquille O'Neal salary 2008 (+897%). It's a heck of a lot more than we make. (Try $20 million.) The all-star center is moving from the Phoenix Suns to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Ark of the Covenant (+860%). The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia announced that they've got it and will soon show it.
- Allen Stanford (+192%). The financier pleaded not guilty to allegedly running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
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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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