the buzz log
Queen Latifah, Supreme Court, Weekend Box Office: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Mon, July 13, 2009, 11:03 am PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Queen Latifah (Searches increased by 956%). The singer delivered a touching eulogy at Michael Jackson's memorial—but turns out the Queen had never actually met the King of Pop.
- Supreme Court justices (+476%). A recent study shows that a majority of Americans can't name one of the nine. Get the complete list.
- Weekend box office (+463%). "Bruno" beat out "Ice Age" for number one at the movies.
- Pancreatic cancer (+204%). North Korea's Kim Jong Il is suffering from the disease.
- Watch "True Blood" (+175%). The vampire series is giving HBO its first hit since "Rome."
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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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