the buzz log
Big Boat, Anne Frank, Thanksgiving: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Mon, November 02, 2009, 11:34 am PST
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Anne Frank (Searches increased by 2,453%). A sapling from the chestnut tree that grew outside the Amsterdam family's house is coming to a human rights center in Idaho.
- CIT Group (+2,199%). The retail lender filed for bankruptcy protection. And no, it's not part of Citigroup. That's different.
- Easy Thanksgiving recipes (+854%). Geez, the Halloween costumes are hardly put away. But here are some ideas to get you going.
- Oasis of the Sea (+767%). The largest cruise ship on the water barely made it under a Danish bridge on its maiden voyage to — where else — Florida.
- New York City Marathon (+586%). For the first time in 27 years, an American finished first. Speaking of running, how about that Johnny Damon?
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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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