This week's Zeitgeist, Google's list of top search gainers, is a mix of homage and pop culture, as the searching populace remembers past leaders and ailing crooners while keeping up with current events. Top Gaining Search Queries: Week Ending January 20, 2007
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - The search community really rallied around this cultural hero and icon by staging a TV-news interview had people wondering about her seeming inability to annunciate. . .or face the camera. . .or make sense. . .or act one bit sober. Sssometimez sheee awlwayss likes tooo suh-lur at innerviewz. Or maybe she's just gone bat-crap crazy. Which is better? Rehab or the nuthouse? 7. Australian Open - It's summer Down Under, which is good for tennis. In the winter, which is upside down summer, the courts are Australian Closed. 8. Water intoxication - A radio contest turned tragic, simultaneously educating the public that you can, actually, die from drinking too much water. 9. 24 - The following description takes place between now and the time I finish. Jack Bauer's four-hour blitz on prime time ended in a California nuke. Luckily, the frost-bitten citrus crops were saved. 10.
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