4.03.2009

XKCD Readers Use a Lot of Google?






A few hours after that image went up, the Google Trends:



5 comments:

WaltzInExile said...

Okay, so they didn't understand about Higgs excitations and they googled it -- I have to say it's preferable to reading it, not understanding why it's funny but knowing it's supposed to be, and just pretending they got it...?

Yet Another Girl said...

I have no idea what XKCD is talking about 20% of the time. ;>

I just like seeing Google Trends in the morning.

What was the oddball thing on House? What random person may have died on a night-time soap? Who lost American Idol? -- it's all revealed in Google Trends.

WaltzInExile said...

But then I guess they wouldn't be the xkcd target audience, really, if they weren't curious..?

Yet Another Girl said...

If you google it now, you get a bunch of "what the heck?" postings. So I did "higgs excitation wikipedia" -- viola, a bunch of pages of people begging for a wikipedia page.

There will probably be one up by lunch!

Yet Another Girl said...

For the record, I tried tweeting ScienceFriday from my mobile while in the car and asking them (it was a panel of physics dudes!), but my attempt to tie old media to new media failed...