Mediterranean Diet

The Washington Post Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - A new study found that a diet of "low-glycemic foods" -- such as beans, nuts, peas, lentils and pasta -- was superior to a high-cereal-fiber diet -- think pumpernickel, rye pita, quinoa, large flake oatmeal and oat bran -- when it comes to lowering blood sugar and other risk factors for heart disease in people with diabetes.

"This reemphasizes what we know -- at the end of the day, the best diet is the Mediterranean-type diet: nuts, beans, lentils, fruits, vegetables," said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of Women and Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. "The study didn't exactly call it a Mediterranean diet, but the components of it were Mediterranean."

Today's Hot Searches: mediterranean diet, mediterranian deit, mediteranian

Oprah and the Amazon Kindle

Oprah Winfrey proclaimed the Kindle as her new favorite thing in the world.

The Amazon Kindle is a wireless reading device that uses an electronic paper display for reading e-books.

Oprah gave away a Kindle to everyone in her audience on Friday.

For all the people asking about the coupon, it is not actually a printable coupon but rather a discount code that you must enter when you order.

Amazon Kindle Discount Code (until Nov 1st): OPRAHWINFREY

Hot Searches: amazon kindle, amazon kendal, kendall book

Pirates, Peg Legs, and Parrots

Ahoy! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Tell everyone about it on your ayePhone. Arrr!

Hot Searches include talk like a pirate day 2008, pirate names, pirate translation, pirate dictionary, pirate lingo, parrots, pirate speak, pirate language, and searches for pirate names, phrases, sayings, terms, jokes, and quotes.

Official site for Talk Like A Pirate Day

Apple Lets Rock with iPod News

Apple events in San Francisco always create a buzz!

Apple Set to Unveil New iPods

Hot Searches: apple news, apple lets rock, new ipod, apple announcement, apple event, itunes 8, ipod announcement

Lego of My Lego!

The unveiling of the rules for the Climate Connections Project, an international competition for elementary and middle school students run by the FIRST Lego League (FLL), has made this a hot topic today.

Lego has come along way.

Sarah Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Forget about the issues, Sarah Palin's voting record, her stand on abortion, or biography info. All we want to see are the pics.

Hot Searches: sarah palin bikini, sarah palin hot photos, and sarah palin bathing suit.

Just to prevent any accusations of sexual bias, I also did a search for joe biden bikini.

Case Sarah, Sarah

Republican presidential nominee John McCain today selected Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.

Hot Searches: sarah palin, governor of alaska, susan palin, sarah phelan, and shara palin.

It seems that someone has believed in her potential for a while. The Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President blog has been online since February 2007.

Que sera, sera.

Increase Gas Mileage With Water

Content sites were saturated with water for gas articles causing the alternate fuel topic to rise dramatically in the search results.

Hot Searches: water for gas, water4gas, water 4 gas, and searches for hho plans, brown gas kits, and hydrogen conversions.

Tropical Storm Fay

As tropical storm Fay heads toward Florida, hot searches include hurricane fay projected path, hurricane fay tracking, hurricane fey and florida weather.

For storm tracking information, check out the National Hurricane Center.

Bigfoot Attacks Olympics

Bigfoot searches conquered the search results today.

Bigfoot gets the gold medal, followed by Chupacabra for the silver, and the Montauk Monster for the bronze.

Hot searches: bigfoot found, fox news bigfoot, bigfoot georgia, bigfoot body, bigfoot caught, bigfoot captured, dead bigfoot, georgia gorilla, and my favorite searching for bigfoot.

Two Northern California men and two Georgians say they've got a body, a photo and DNA evidence pertaining to the elusive forest-dwelling man-ape - and that they'll reveal all at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday.

Source: Bigfoot Trackers Say They've Got a Body

Jason Lezak. Unbelievable!

The Olympics continues to dominate the search results, with todays hot searches focusing on the 4-x-100m freestyle relay. Unbelievable finish!

The U.S. men - Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak -- set a world record, finishing in 3:08.24 and won the gold. France took second for the silver, and Australia third for the bronze.

Michael Phelps continues the chase

Hot Searches: lezak video, phelps relay video, 4x100 relay, jason lezak, olympic swimming video, u.s. men win 4x100m free relay. 400 freestyle relay, and olympic relay.

Craigslist Down

• Internet bulletin board Craigslist experienced a brief outage Sunday morning that prevented users from accessing listings pages.
  
  Craigslist experiences listings outage
  
  Hot Searches: craigslist, craigslist down, craig's list, craigslist problems, and craigslist not working
  
  Top 10 craigslist cities: seattle, portland, boston, phoenix, san diego, chicago, austin, tucson, new york, and pittsburgh.

Everything Olympics

Let the games begin!

Hot Searches: olympic schedule, beijing 2008 olympic games live, olympic coverage, opening ceremonies, nbc olympics, 2008 olympics, opening ceremonies, us olympic team, what time is it in beijing, olympic medal count, olympic anthem, and olympic trivia.

Watch the 2008 Summer Olympics from Beijing China. Visit the NBC Olympics website for featured Olympic athlete profiles, daily online blogs, videos and photos from the Olympic games online. Learn the history of the summer Olympic sports and the modern summer games.

Packers trade Brett Favre to N.Y. Jets

Once in a while, one topic totally dominates the top searches.

New York Jets can only hope that they can dominate as well this season.

The Brett Favre era in Green Bay officially came to a close early Thursday morning as the Packers traded their iconic quarterback to the New York Jets.

USA Today - Headed to Broadway

Hot searches: ny jets, new york jets, favre jets jersey, jets schedule, jets quarterback, and jets tickets

Paris Hilton for President

Hot searches today: paris hilton, funny or die, paris hilton political commercial, paris hilton energy plan, laugh or die, and paris hilton campaign ad.

This spoof was in response to McCain's commercial comparing Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and was covered on all major news channels and most late night talk shows.

See the ad at Funny or Die.

I have to say that her political platform seems much clearer than that of either Obama or McCain.

Paris is hot!

John A. Junior Gotti Arrested

Hot Searches: john a. junior gotti, victoria gotti, growing up gotti, and gotti family.

Newsday: John 'Junior' Gotti charged in 3 murders

Also a high volume of searches for curtis sliwa.

Curtis Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels and a radio talk show host.

Gotti was tried three times in Manhattan on racketeering charges for an alleged plot to kidnap the Guardian Angels founder back in 1992. The trials in 2005 and 2006 ended in hung juries and mistrials.

Christina Applegate Cancer

"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening." according to her spokesperson.

Searches for christina applegate, christina applegate cancer, applegate, and breast cancer.

How Cool is Quil?

New search engine Quil unveiled today.

Quil is hot!

Hot searches include cuil, cuil.com, kuil, cull search, ciul, new search engine, and cool search. Also popular were searches for Anna Patterson, president and co-founder of the new search engine and former Google employee.

The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch, a man known for his "Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon University, has passed away today due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

Rest in Peace Randy Pausch.

May your last lecture continue to live on and spread the message of living life fully.

"time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than
you think"

~ Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch's best-seller motivational book The Last Lecture

Hot searches today included randy pausch, last lecture, really achieving your childhood dreams, carnegie mellon, and pancreatic cancer.

Social Security Retirement Benefits Estimator

Several news organizations reported that a new Retirement Estimator Tool was available. Top searches included social security website, social security, retirement calculator, and social security estimator.

Also the high volume of searches for ssa.gov, ssa.gov/estimator, and w w w.ssa.gov show that many users (especially those approaching retirement) are still in the habit of entering URL's into a search engine rather than entering the URL in the address bar.

[Press Release - SSA - July 21, 2008] Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today unveiled a new online calculator at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator that will provide immediate and personalized benefit estimates to help people plan for their retirement. The Retirement Estimator is tied to a person’s actual Social Security earnings record and eliminates the need to manually key in years of earnings information.

"Deciding when to retire is one of the most important and difficult decisions many people face," Commissioner Astrue said. "The Retirement Estimator greatly improves the information available when trying to decide the right time to retire. It is simple, easy-to-use and will provide highly accurate benefit estimates for those nearing retirement age. For younger workers, it will provide valuable information to help them plan and save for their retirement."

The Retirement Estimator is interactive allowing the user to compare different retirement options. For example, a person can change retirement dates or expected future earnings. Individuals also can print out up to three different scenarios at one time, in addition to information about their benefits at age 62 (current age if older), full retirement age and age 70.
Best of all, the Retirement Estimator is secure. The only thing it provides online is retirement benefit estimates. It does not show the earnings record information on which the final benefit estimate was calculated, nor does it reveal other personal information.

"The Retirement Estimator is just one of many things we are doing to make more information and services people need available over the Internet," Commissioner Astrue stated. "We recently unveiled a new home page at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/ that reduces visual clutter and is easier to navigate. Since its release, we have received many positive comments. In the fall, we will introduce the public to our next initiative: a total overhaul of our online retirement application that will reduce the average filing time from 45 minutes to about 15 minutes. These initiatives will help us better handle the baby boomer wave and make it easier for the public to do business with us online."

Holy Google Batman

Today Batman dominates the search engines.

Top searches include batman, dark knight, the joker, heath ledger, batman villains, robin, jack nicholson, and the riddler.


The Dark Knight - Official Movie Site

Batman - The Dark Knight Trailer HD - High quality movie trailer on YouTube.

Low Carb Diet Results

Hot searches for the day included mediterranean diet, atkins diet, low carb diet, and alternate day diet.

This follows the release of a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study comparing three popular diets -- the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, the Mediterranean diet that is rich in fish and nuts, and a low-fat diet recommended by the American Heart Assn. -- has found that the Atkins and Mediterranean led to a slightly greater weight loss than the low-fat diet.

Study says Atkins diet is best; others doubt it.

Arizona Lottery - Search for the Winning Numbers

Today's hot search is for the Arizona Lottery.

It seems that the Arizona Lottery official website is currently unavailable.

The searches include arizona lottery, az lottery, arizonalottery.com, az powerball, and azlottery.

Arizona Lottery winning numbers

Adsense Arbitrage Case Study

Learn how one man made $4515 in adsense commission in just over 1 month - with absolutely no success in the past! Download this Keyword Elite case study for free.

Adsense Arbitrage Free eBook

What is a Malignant Brain Tumor?

US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor makes this a hot search.

The usual course of treatment for this type of tumor includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy.

For more information on brain tumors and treatments, check out the following sites.

Mayo Clinic - Brain Tumors

American Brain Tumor Association's Primer

Iron Man's suit no match for Gwyneth Paltrow

Stella McCartney's custom design jumpsuit worn by Gwyneth Paltrow at the Iron Man movie premiere in Hollywood was an eye opener. Hot search for today.

Photoshop Express

Today's hot search is for Photoshop Express, the long-awaited free online image editor from Photoshop maker Adobe. Check it out!

Happy Easter

Reflecting on the true meaning of Easter. Hot Searches today included target easter hours, home depot easter hours, and walmart easter.


Shopping Online

Hot Safari

Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Apple Releases Safari 3.1

I-rish You A Happy St. Patrick's Day

Leprechauns, blarney stones, shamrocks, Irish toasts, and green beer.

May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.

Corned Beef and Cabbage

St Patrick's Day brings us the hot corned beef and cabbage.

Other tasty dishes include Irish Lamb Stew, Pan-Roasted Salmon on Horseradish Potatoes, or how about Beef and Guinness Pie with Mushrooms and Chestnuts.

Best Irish Recipes

Hulu Hoopla

The public launch today of Hulu.com is today's hot search.

From their press release.

LOS ANGELES - March 12, 2008- Hulu, an online video service, today announced the public launch of its Web site, Hulu.com. Beginning today, consumers in the U.S. can go to Hulu.com to watch a large selection of hit TV shows, movies, clips and more in high-quality - anytime, for free.

In addition, Hulu announced new content partnerships with the Warner Bros. Television Group, Lionsgate, NBA, NHL and more than 20 other top content providers. New content additions to Hulu’s library will include: feature films like The Usual Suspects and Ice Age, shows like Dirt, The Incredible Hulk, Babylon 5, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Dick Van Dyke Show, nightly highlights, top plays and full-length games from the NBA and the NHL, popular made for web programming such as Prom Queen and Onion News Network, and much more.

On Hulu.com, consumers can enjoy one of the largest selections of legal, free videos from more than 50 top broadcast networks, cable networks, movie studios and web-centric content providers. Hulu’s library offers full-length episodes from more than 250 TV series - from current hits like The Simpsons, The Office and Prison Break to classics like Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Miami Vice.

In addition, Hulu offers 100 full-length feature films such as The Big Lebowski, Me, Myself & Irene, Some Like It Hot, Mulholland Drive and Three Amigos!. Hulu also provides short clips from 150 more TV series like Saturday Night Live and In Living Color as well as 50 additional films such as Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Die Hard, Vertigo, and The Mummy.

About Hulu

Hulu is an online video service that offers a selection of hit shows, clips, movies, and more at Hulu.com and other destination sites online, including AOL, Comcast’s Fancast.com, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo!. Hulu’s selection of premium programming is provided by leading content companies, including FOX, NBC Universal, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros. Television Group, as well as Access Hollywood, AST Dew Tour, BNET, Bravo, Broadway Video, CenterStaging, Chic.tv, Chiller, CHOW, CNET, Comedy Time, Davis-Panzer Productions, E! Entertainment Television, ExerciseTV, FEARnet, Ford Models, Fox Atomic, Fox Movie Channel, Fox Reality, Fox Searchlight, Fox Sports, Fox TV Studios, Fuel TV, FX Networks, G4TV, Gamespot, Gamespy, Hidden Universe, IGN, Image Entertainment, Lionsgate, LX.TV, MEN7, Mojo, Movieola, My Network TV, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Digital Shorts, NBA, NBC Sports, NHL, Oxygen, Paley Media, Reveille, Salient Media, SciFi Channel, Shout! Factory, Sleuth Channel, SpaceRip, Speed, Sundance Channel, Taste TV, The Fight Network, The Golf Channel, The Onion, The Style Network, TV Guide, TVG, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Television, Twentieth Television, Universal Pictures, USA Network, Versus, Vuguru, WatchMojo, Wine Library TV and World Wrestling Entertainment®.

Hulu was founded in March 2007 by NBC Universal and News Corp and is operated independently by a dedicated management team with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Beijing. Hulu closed a $100 million investment from private equity firm Providence Equity Partners in October 2007.

It's About Time!

What time is it? It's Daylight Saving Time. Time related searches dominate today's search trends. Atomic clock, current time, time of day, daylight savings, date and time, and time check were some of the most requested searches today.



It's about time.

Forbes World's Richest List

Forbes list of the world's billionaires dominates the top searches for today. Most news related stories focus on the top 3.

1 Warren Buffett (USA)
2 Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico)
3 William Gates III (USA)

What's interesting is that of the remaining top 10 richest people, four are from India.

4 LakshmiMittal (India)
5 Mukesh Ambani (India)
6 Anil Ambani (India)
7 Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden)
8 KP Singh (India)
9 Oleg Deripaska (Russia)
10 Karl Albrecht (Germany)

Think and Grow Rich

Patrick Swayze - 5 Weeks to Live

The National Enquirer reported that Patrick Swayze has cancer with only 5 weeks to live. The news quickly spread to several other news sites. According to the latest reports, the cancer originated in his pancreas, but quickly spread, and is no longer responding to treatment.

Patrick Swayze is today's hot search.

I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream

~lyrics from She's Like the Wind

Privacy Policy Generator - DMA

Could Google's new AdSense Online Terms and Conditions privacy policy requirements be prompting the increased number of searches for the Direct Marketing Association?

DMA's Privacy Policy Generator is a tool to help webmasters create a privacy policy by answering a few questions regarding their site information policies.



Webmaster Resources: Privacy Policy

Leap Day NOT Sadie Hawkins Day

The hot searches today are leap year, leap day, February 29, and the misguided searches for Sadie Hawkins Day. Sadie Hawkins Day is actually celebrated in November and owes its beginnings to Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner.

For those of you who get a Friday paycheck, the next occurrence of a Five Friday February will be in February 2036.

Free McDonald's McSkillet Burrito

Today's hot search!

McDonalds is offering all customers a free McSkillet breakfast burrito Thursday February 28th and Friday February 29th with the purchase of a medium or large beverage.

The McSkillet Burrito combines scrambled eggs, sausage and skillet potatoes with cheese, red and green peppers, onions and salsa roja.

McDonald's Corp. said it expects to give away one million burritos each day.

Get them while they're hot.

Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Hot search for today! Ralph Nader, who will turn 74 on February 27th, announced his presidential bid on NBC's "Meet the Press" saying that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans were addressing the problems facing Americans.

Vote Ralph Nader 2008

Help Daddy Find his Toenail

Apparently Jake isn't the only one that doesn't know the meaning of the word "patricide".

In Help Daddy Find his Toenail, last night's episode of the comedy Two and a Half Men, the young boy Jake asks his father what patricide means after listening to a song.

The power of television makes this the hot search. Other attempts at spelling the word patricide included patracide, patraside, patrocide, and patriside.

To prevent this search from becoming even hotter, patricide is the act of killing one's father. [ derived from the latin pater (father) and -cida (killer) ]

Garmin nuvi 750

Today's smokin' deal on HSN placed the Garmin nüvi on the hot search list.



Garmin GPS Navigator Systems

Oh...Oh... Oprah and Orman

On Wednesday's show, Oprah offered a free download of Suze Orman's book, Women & Money.The result was not unexpected. Total domination of the hot searches. Her offer expires later today. Happy Valentines Day!


Suze Orman's Woman & Money

Living to 100: A Healthy Lifestyle

An article from Archives of Internal Medicine and follow-up articles by several news organizations made "living to 100" today's hot search. It seems that a lot more health-conscious seniors are using computers and the internet these days.

Living to 100: The 100 Year Lifestyle

Debbie Clemens - The Swimsuit Edition

Searches for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition seemed to jump dramatically today. It seems that a news report from The Daily News led the surge.

Say it isn't so, Debbie Clemens.

Happy New Year!

The altered logo of Google again dominates the top searches. Terms hitting the hot list include chinese new year, chinese calendar, chinese zodiac, year of the rat, chinese astrology, chinese horoscope, and chinese signs. Google's friendly drawing even has many people searching for "the year of the mouse".

The Chinese New Year 4706 begins today and is The Year of the Rat. The Year of the Pig ended yesterday. The twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

Learn more about the Chinese New Year.

16 GB iPhone

The new 16GB iPhone triggers the hot button on today's search list. When the Apple Store goes down like it did early this morning, you can expect new product to appear. Along with the 16GB iPhone, Apple also released a new 32GB iPod touch.

Read Apple Press Release

Olevia 52" LCD TV

Woot is Worth Watching. So is the Olevia 252TFHD 2 Series 52" 1080p LCD TV.

Go Daddy Go!

Racy ad. Racy racer.

GoDaddy.com, #1 for new internet domain name registrations, knows how to get their money's worth out of a Superbowl advertisement. Not only do they get all the viewers to watch their ad during the Superbowl, everyone heads over to their site to see the ad that got banned. Smart marketing ploy. This wins the race for hot search of the day.

The Power of Oprah: The Power of Now

Book author Eckhart Tolle hits the hot search list today.

Oprah loves Eckhart Tolle.
Oprah makes A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose her latest book club selection.

Eckhart Tolle loves Oprah.


"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!" ~ Eckhart Tolle

Who Gives a Woot!

Apparently searchers for Polaroid's t380 ultra compact 8mp digital camera do.

Features:

• 8 Megapixels - resolution up to 3264×2448, print quality up to 20"×30"
• 3x optical and 4x digital zoom for getting close to the action
• 3" color LCD PictBridge compatible
• Face Tracking - Uses auto digital zoom technology to retract and extract the zoom lens to lock the main subject in the picture and follows their movements.
• Image Stabilizer - Reduces the amount of image motion caused by camera shake or the subject
• 16 Megabytes of internal flash memory, accepts SD memory cards
• 16:9 Image Output - Photos look great on HD TVs
• Takes movie clips with sounds in MPEG 4 format
• Dimensions: .9 x 3.8 x 2.3 (WxLxH)

The Woot item of the day made this today's hot search.

Harlem Globetrotters vs. George W. Bush

The Harlem Globetrotters battled the State of the Union address for the attention of many TV viewers. It was a fairly even battle for most of the evening, but when ticket results were included, the Globetrotters won easily. The President can only dream about being as successful against his Washington opponents.

LEGO, Google, and the Stock Market

Traffic has been through the roof today for "Legos" and related searches. What has caused the jump in volume? The 50th anniversary of LEGO with a little help from Google. The google graphic today is built from LEGO bricks. The suggestive power of Google is awesome. Just think what a Google suggestion could do to the stock market. Watch out, Alan Greenspan.

Happy Birthday to LEGO !