This is the game I play every week on the Will and Willie show. It’s all about people’s behavior searching online. See how well you do. Scroll down afterwards to see the answers.
1. For searchers, what’s more important, the white pages or the yellow pages?
(Source: Google Zeitgeist, June, 2006)
2. Put the following news organizations in order of most searched:
MSNBC, ESPN, CNN
(Source: Google Zeitgeist, June, 2006)
3. (Part A) The Connecticut race. Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the primary. Who won in the international search race?
(Part B) This primary interested people all over the country. Outside of any town in Connecticut, which city was most interested in this race?
(A) Philadelphia, PA
(B) Washington, DC
(C) New York, New York
(Source: Google Current and Google Trends)
4. We’re obsessed with celebrities. Which of the following celebrity stories caused the greatest upsurge in search for that celebrity? Was it:
(A) The rumor that Matthew McConaughey called up Jennifer Aniston on a date, but got turned down cause she was dating Vince Vaughan?
(B) The story that actress Angie Harmon likes to dress up as a French maid to get her husband, former NFL player, Jason Sehorn excited?
(C) The story that Dustin Diamond, better known as Screech, got mugged by a woman?
(Source: Yahoo! Buzz Index)
5. Terrorism and earthquakes. They’re both scary, and the media and the public are fascinated with both. Over the past three years where has their interest lied?
(Part A) In terms of media coverage, which has received more press, terrorism or earthquakes?
(Part B) In terms of search popularity, what has the public been more interested in, terrorism or earthquakes?
(Source: Google Trends)
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ANSWERS:
1. White pages
2. CNN, ESPN, MSNBC
3. (Part A) Joe Lieberman (He’s actually the top searched “Joe†so far in August)
1. (Part B) (B)
2. (C) Supposedly, she stole his PSP videogames to which Diamond responded, “I’m a big gamer and you don’t mess with the D-man’s videogames.â€
3. (Part A) Terrorism, (Part B) Earthquakes
