Googling By Numbers

Jellyfish, vibrators and blue moons may make for strange bedfellows but today they all won the same much coveted-prize: a spot on Google Hot Trends list.

On a day like today, I can’t help but wonder what exactly goes through the average person’s head when the switch on the computer, wait 20 minutes for it to load and pull up the Google home page.

(Yes that’s right, I am questioning the motives of human kind)

Eons ago scientists worked tirelessly to create the internet.

Their dream? To help elighten people across the globe.

The reality? Providing people with the ability to Google the new Trojan vibrating mini… the elightenment is too much to bear!

Yep, a new year is coming and women everywhere want to ring it in with a downsized pleasure massager.

Don’t believe me? Trojan’s newest invention scored the number 13 spot on today’s list.

And where there’s pleasure, there’s also pain. Well at least for the winner of Best Job in the World contest Ben Southall.

Stung by the highly venomous Irukandji jellyfish, Ben’s misfortune took out today’s number 6 spot.

Obviously buring with jealously that he gets paid to look after a tropical island, I doubt we’re Googling this out of sympathy.

Just desserts more likely. He may have the best job but he’s also got a giant jellyfish sting on his elbow… suck!

But taking-delight-in-others’-misfortune aside. The best bit of Googling gossip I scored today was all about a certain blue moon.

Nothing brings out the curious Googler like an astronomical abnormality.

North Americans are set to see the second full moon this month on New Year’s Eve. A rare occasion, this second moon is known as a Blue Moon.

But before you pull out your dusty, old telescope. It’s not actually blue. In fact it’ll look exactly like every other full moon.

Not that it matters. The simple mention of blue moon scored this otherwise boring news today’s number 19 spot.

Now you may be wondering why I’ve mentioned these three random facts together.

Sure there’s no real link. But to my very simple brain it shows that we, the Googlers of the world, don’t discriminate.

Be it jellyfish, vibrators or blue moons, we’ll give it a Google.

You’d seriously think nothing else in this world was going on.

In fact, if you just relied on Google Trends, you’d probably have a very ignorant but very happy picture of the world.

Not that I’m knocking it. Personally, there’s already enough sadness in the world. Why can’t we spend a few minutes mocking that stuck up so-and-so who scored our dream job?

It’s not what those internet scientist hoped for…but who cares what a bunch of nerds think anyway?.