Reality Check: Lowest Common Denominator Still Rules the Internet

Poetry is on there, Wow! Also, you can’t really knock baby names. As would be expected, people are interested in people stuff. Technology will always be a sidelight to everyone except we crazed few.

It’s funny to see all the searches for major domains. Do they know that they can just type it into the address bar?

I was impressed that poetry was on the list too.

And the reason I called it a reality check is exactly because technology -- and blogging -- will always appeal to us crazed few. It's like anything else, you start to think that where you are is reality.

As for typing "google" and "yahoo" into google and yahoo, that's a whole other kind of reality check.

I used to work fo Borders when they still offered customer service and learned booksellers. In its even earlier days, it was known for very educated booksellers who truly loved the printed word. The stores contained huge selections because the computer system the founders invented could handle it, and because they wanted a truly unique experience - like many comfy chairs to hanf out and enjoy the books all day. Such was the start and hope. Yet in reality, the cheap paperbacks, bestsellers and coffee tables books were the real sales while most of the literature and more esoteric stuff, sat and looked pretty on the shelves.

But...at least it did make it possible for the stores to maintain the large inventory for awhile.

I wouldn't put much stock in this query list... The data Wordtracker is drawing from doesn't represent a very large sample size at all. In fact, it represents a downright tiny sample size compared to the following:

Yahoo! Buzz Index:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

The Lycos 50:
http://50.lycos.com/

These two indexes represent a much more accurate picture of search activity online because they represent a much larger sample size.

I often look at the Technorati home page to see the top 10 searches in the last hour. Wow, is this reality!!

http://www.technorati.com/

Thanks John!

LES: It's blog reality. And who knows if that is really reality. :>)
BL