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...findings, published last Wednesday on the Web site of the British journal Nature, have implications in finding a new treatment or cure for diabetes while opening doors to a host of new possibilities...
...least that's what I thought before I started analyzing the top Internet search terms about each candidate. There are indeed Web searches for Barack Obama's and John McCain's respective platforms, but those searches are in the minority. Rather, U.S. Internet searchers are seemingly more interested in irrelevant facts and bizarre rumors about the candidates and their families...
...clear what spurred this particular search to start, but looking closely at the searchers' related Web behavior may give clues to why they're continuing to query "Obama Antichrist" at all. One simple way to understand searcher intent is to analyze, in aggregate, which of the search results people tend to click on. After searching for "Obama Antichrist," people, predictably, tend to go to a blog dedicated to the topic and political blogs commenting on the McCain ad and its connection to the theory. But the most visited search-result site was Snopes.com (16.7% of all visits...
...regarding those pesky and potentially harmful e-mail chain letters that falsely warn of the health hazards of underarm deodorant or of the risks of having your kidneys stolen right out of your body by organ harvesters at foreign hotels. Over 30% of the traffic to Snopes.com originates from Web-based e-mail domains, since e-mail is the main way these urban myths get spread...
...rare species, dig it up and FedEx it home, avoiding all the inspections along the way." For the travel-averse, there's no shortage of cactus dealers online: a 2005 Mexican study found nearly 4,000 websites selling cactuses, and 500 were run by illicit traders, who constantly switch Web servers and names to elude law enforcement. "The downside," says Wiedhopf, "is that this is a world where some people have a sense of greed, a need for personal acquisition...