the buzz log
Drew Barrymore, Tornado Potato, Skating Babies: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Fri, July 10, 2009, 12:25 pm PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Big green egg (Searches increased by 1,942%). No, not something from Dr. Seuss. It's an orb-like barbeque grill with quite a following.
- Tornado potato (+1,681%). A storm of spiral cut, deep-fried potatoes could be headed for your stomach.
- Evian roller babies (+1,110%). The video of computer-generated babies on skates has become a Web sensation.
- Drew Barrymore (+525%). The star will be filming at the Associated Press headquarters for a romantic comedy about an older-than-usual news intern.
- World's most expensive car 2009 (+171%). At $1.7 million, it better go from zero to 60 in 2.6 seconds.
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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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