Goat succas
Below you will find the list of most popular Google search items for weekending 6th December, c/o their Zeitgeist page.
Number 7 on the Top 10 Gaining Queries list holds a special interest. Not only does it refer to the legendary goatsucker, a cryptozoological beasty said to be responsible for a slew of animal mutilations in South America, it also demonstrates the way in which people just don't take this sort of lark seriously. Regular readers of Fortean Times will know that the beasty, being of Spanish nomenclature, is called chupacabras; one chupacabras, many chupacabras. This glut of online bad spelling is probably due to the underbright movie industry, and the various films that managed to get all the way through to a release without anyone pointing out the glaring error in the title.
And what is perhaps more disturbing than the plethora of bad spellers using Google, is the fact that the search term seemed to work fine for them.
Number 7 on the Top 10 Gaining Queries list holds a special interest. Not only does it refer to the legendary goatsucker, a cryptozoological beasty said to be responsible for a slew of animal mutilations in South America, it also demonstrates the way in which people just don't take this sort of lark seriously. Regular readers of Fortean Times will know that the beasty, being of Spanish nomenclature, is called chupacabras; one chupacabras, many chupacabras. This glut of online bad spelling is probably due to the underbright movie industry, and the various films that managed to get all the way through to a release without anyone pointing out the glaring error in the title.
And what is perhaps more disturbing than the plethora of bad spellers using Google, is the fact that the search term seemed to work fine for them.
posted by Hamilton's Brain | 2:28 pm
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