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December 25, 2007

Popular Christmas Gifts in the US



Google Hot Trends is a great way to see what are the most popular Christmas presents, at least in the US. You only need to look at the URLs entered in Google's search box (people still haven't discovered the address bar):

4. www.zune.net/setup
7. itunes.com
11. www.myepets.com
16. www.shiningstars.com
29. webkinz.com
34. att.com/activations
41. virginmobileusa.com/activate
45. www.apple.com/support/manuals/ipod
52. apple.com/ipod/start
65. www.tracfone.com

Can you guess the presents? Did you receive something similar? Note that the list is updated every hour, so you may see a different hierarchy.

{ Thanks, TomHTML. }

4 comments:

  1. I keep reading this around the web:

    "You only need to look at the URLs entered in Google's search box (people still haven't discovered the address bar):"

    I often search for content by selecting text in firefox and right click "Search Google for ...". I do this alot when a URL hasn't been marked up as a link, as there's no "Open in New Tab" option in that scenario.

    Just thought you might be interested to know that this isn't necessarily because people haven't discovered the address bar...

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  2. Nick then you haven't discovered the "URL Link" add-on for Firefox or you just don't know Opera web browser. :)

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  3. I hear about popularity of the Zune and wonder... I only know one person who has one and they are always complaining that it randomly crashes. It's not near as good as some competitors in my opinion.

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  4. "I only know one person who has one and they are..."

    Go back to school...

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