By Joel Abrams, Senior Product Manager
I’m a contrarian, so instead of the usual top list, I decided to put together a bottom list.
Note: All of these are actual search terms that users typed into the search box on boston.com in 2012, but they aren’t the true bottom. Our analytics system only let me get the top 100,000 search terms, and many are actually quite prosaic. These are my selection of the most obscure, random, and unlikely to yield useful results.
- mass. witches assembling to end tim tebow’s season, keep tom brady’s alive
- Video of unknown male murder feburary 19 2012
- bhjgffghyfgfrfdfffffffffffffffffffffffjhghuehwyhbhhduddddddddiyhygugy yugy
- Sex in Kenya
- and rabbi akiva said it was 200 plagues as we got closer to the sea
- What are the two qualities looked for in choosing sled dogs?
- what do it look like when the sun tern to a blak hole
- why globe is placed on the table in every office?
- internet explorer and its helpful features
- Would you wait in line 8 hours for a beer?
What’s the most popular search on Boston.com? Same as it was last year: obituaries. The most popular topical term of the year? Liberty Mutual.
Bonus popularity contest: the most popular entry on our Big Picture photoblog was the Russia in color, a century ago and least popular was the death of Cambodia’s King Sihanouk.
Yes, I would wait in line 8 hours for a beer.
It’s been a rough couple of days in the news, to say the least, and sometimes we all just need something to smile at. Here’s a little holiday cheer, courtesy of Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway. Enjoy! (Warning: This is absolutely NSFW) source
This is just scratching the surface for bad 2012s.
Shockingly, people may have had a worse year than Romney tattoo guy.
Conservative Sen. Jim DeMint is resigning, and Stephen Colbert wants the job. All he wants us to do is tweet #SenatorColbert at Gov. Nikki Haley.
Want to help make #SenatorColbert a reality? Check out Colbert’s pitch here.Reblog/share/like this if you want Senator Colbert to happen.
“Tweet @nikkihaley & tell her why I belong in the US Senate. For one, I wouldn’t just block legislation, I’d body-check it! #SenatorColbert”
For our money, we want Alvin Greene back in. Here’s why:
Callin’ it early: Phoenix’s CBS News affiliate KPHO accidentally called the 2012 Presidential Election in-favor of President Barack Obama for approximately seventeen seconds during a broadcast of ‘The People’s Court’ last Friday. Coincidentally, they gave the President the exact same lead that Mitt Romney is currently enjoying in the polls. What you may not have noticed, at first, is that they only alocated 83 percent of the vote between the two candidates. Does handing 17 percent of the electorate to third party candidates seem a bit ambitious to anybody else? source
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Bain Capital was interested in working with Gawker financially, but the guy who reached out wasn’t aware of their previous reporting on the firm. ”I’ve been working here for like a week now,” he said. “I just thought it was a unique idea. We work with a lot of similar companies. I had no idea about the [Bain stories]. I’m not sure it would work out. This is awkward.” Yeah, it sure is, because Gawker posted the e-mail.
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee - Michael Richards
In the final episode in the first round of Jerry Seinfeld’s web series, Michael Richards addresses his infamous outburst.
A reminder of the time you liked Michael Richards, before he became a walking disaster. Also, this series is a much better fit for Jerry Seinfeld than “The Marriage Ref.”
it’s like i broke up with obama and he’s not taking it well
Snorting
He keeps saying it’s the absolute last time he’s going to ask me to dinner and it keeps being a lie.
You think Obama’s bad? Biden wants to take me out for a cup of coffee.
And Michelle was having trouble getting a birthday card signed.
You’d think she’d leave me alone after that, but …
So much pressure.
(Source: tockthewatchdog)
I’ll go ahead and say it – I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there.President Obama • Admitting to Bob Woodward that he regrets the incident in which he tore apart Paul Ryan’s budget plans right in front of him. He regrets it so much that he got Paul Ryan’s name right in his interview with Woodward. Maybe Obama just read “Patriot Games” again or something?
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
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A fundamental misunderstanding of cloud computing: According to a recent Wakefield Research/Citrix study, 51 percent of Americans believe stormy weather interferes with their cloud computing, which in their defense, it once did (though probably not for the reason they’re thinking).
A Glorious Ending: Something tells us that Matt Inman just wrote the final chapter in his feud with FunnyJunk and lawyer Charles Carreon. Just as he promised when Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad began last month, Inman posted photos of the $211,223.04 he raised for the National Wildlife Federation and American Cancer Society, in addition to the care package that he plans to have delivered to Carreon’s front door.
Hahaha, these Republicans all tweeted the wrong ruling — MORE HERE.
If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat or a day. If you give a man a Twitter account, he’ll delete his tweets reporting incorrect information and think nobody noticed.
Before the Mickey Mouse Club discovered the now-ubiquitous actor/hunk/superhero, Ryan Gosling was a gawky Canadian kid with a horrible bowl cut who just happened to have some nasty dance moves. Here he is in 1991, melting hearts with this angelic cover of “When a Man Loves a Woman” and breaking it down to C+C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now” with his sister, Mandi.
At one point he pushes his sister out of the way to upstage her. Top that.
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