I am out of things - google trends

I was looking at the hot trends for internet searches today and I don't know what any of it is!  Here they are:

• Stephen Green (who?)
• Reggie Bush (who?)
• Kellen Moore (who?)
• Google dots (what?)
• Charley Hoffman (who?)
• Google Balls (what?)
• Erin Gray (who?)

Am I out of the loop or what?  I don't know who or what any of this is! 

Maybe now that the kids are back in school, I'll have more time to actually read some online papers instead of separating fighting kids, chauffeuring kids around, and trying to veg out in front of facebook to give my brain some time to not have to think about anything.

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Who is Spamming Google Trends?

An article today on Shoemoney which lead me to TechCrunch caught my attention regarding the use of Google Trends and spammers manipulating it to have the search terms they want appear on Google Trends. I thought it worth mentioning here.

The article mentions several search terms that I happened to see the day they were up. I steered clear of the ones with swear words which ended up being the spammed terms. Go figure. One term in the article they say was spammy actually brought a rush of traffic to one of my sites so I guess a one and only "thank you spammers" for that one. Now quit being dorks and manipulating the search terms!

Lame! Why would people waste time doing this?

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