Capital Of Italy

The capital of Italy is Rome.
This search term has gone volcanic on Google Trends today for some reason.

Here's the wiki page on Rome which has a lot of information on the city.

scfi.com/ghosthunters

I see on Google Trends that people are searching for "scifi.com/ghosthunters".

Well, if you are one of those people click here to go to the scifi.com ghosthunters website

Richard Simmons

I have no idea who Richard Simmons is but searching for his name has gone "volcanic" over at Google Trends.

Here's a bunch of links for those of you who know who he is

Richard Simmons on David Letterman
Richard Simmons Hilarious video
Yet another Richard Simmons on Letterman video link

Most abundant element in the universe

The most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen , followed by helium and then oxygen.

The top ten most abundant elements are as follows:
1. Hydrogen
2. Helium
3. Oxygen
4. Carbon
5. Neon
6. Iron
7. Nitrogen
8. Silicon
9. Magnesium
10. Sulfur

All Hail Technoviking

Via Digg

Technoviking does not dance to the music, the music dances to Technoviking.

Update: The video was uploaded to Break.com less than a day ago and already it has had a staggering 1,300,000 views. "TechnoViking" certainly has turned into a bit of an Internet celebrity. This morning "technoviking" was at no.4 on Google Trends.

Update 2: Somebody's put Michael Jackson's "Beat It" on the video..




This is Sparta! (pic)

Vaduz

Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,248 inhabitants.


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Google Trends this morning show "vaduz" at number 3.

Britney Spears MTV Awards

Atrocious
"Out of shape, out of touch, Britney Spears opened the worse MTV Awards Show ever, an atrocious disaster show inspired by Timbaland that served as a big infomercial for the Palms Hotel. If this is the music business, no wonder albums aren’t selling; they don’t have a clue what they are doing!"

Britney Spears Kicks off MTV Awards
Digg - Britney Spears attempts comeback at MTV Awards
Britney Back from the brink - in a bra

Vanessa Hudgens Pictures

This is another pure linkbait experiment after seeing this morning's Google trends. No I don't have them, but you could have a look around
this Google Trends page.

Link baiting update

I thought I'd get a few hundred extra hits from my link baiting experiment, but not this many! Pretty crazy , eh?

Link baiting update

My link baiting post from yesterday appears to have worked, in terms of increasing traffic to this blog. Yes, its a bit evil, but as the graphs and stats from Google Analytics show, sometimes a bit of link baiting can boost the traffic levels. Whether that turns into a boost in long term traffic is another matter.

That Allison Stokke photo

Yes, this is an experiment in evil link baiting. If you don't know who Allison Stokke is, then let me introduce you to the latest viral internet fad. Looks like this pole vaulter has become incredibly famous because of the picture above.

Google News
Washington Post
Allison Stokke hits the front page of the Washington Post

But then , this story is quite relevant to a tech blog - it shows the incredible power of the internet nowadays to make somebody famous practically overnight.

Quote from the Washington Post article above:

Early this month, 18-year-old Allison Stokke walked into her high school track coach's office and asked if he knew any reliable media consultants. Stokke had tired of constant phone calls, of relentless Internet attention, of interview requests from Boston to Brazil.

In her high school track and field career, Stokke had won a 2004 California state pole vaulting title, broken five national records and earned a scholarship to the University of California, yet only track devotees had noticed. Then, in early May, she received e-mails from friends who warned that a year-old picture of Stokke idly adjusting her hair at a track meet in New York had been plastered across the Internet. She had more than 1,000 new messages on her MySpace page. A three-minute video of Stokke standing against a wall and analyzing her performance at another meet had been posted on YouTube and viewed 150,000 times.

Update #1: Meet Alllison Stokke by Erik Gunther on Yahoo Buzz predicted this back on May 18th.

Update #2 : Google Trends graph shows queries for Allison Stoke today in the U.S. - the trend is like a rocket taking off.

Update #3: This google blogsearch gives a good indication of the viral spread of this story.