Friday, February 29, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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

Monday, February 18, 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) ]

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Garmin nuvi 750

Today's smokin' deal on HSN placed the Garmin nĂ¼vi on the hot search list.



Garmin GPS Navigator Systems

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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

Saturday, February 09, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

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.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

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

Monday, February 04, 2008

Olevia 52" LCD TV

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

Sunday, February 03, 2008

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.