I got an email from Google today. Just to me! I feel like a celebrity. Google analyst Jake Parrillo wanted to let me know that Portland is the city with the most people looking for Occupy Wall Street news of any city in the country. Even more than New York!
Here’s their list of cities most frantically Googling “occupy wall street” and related terms:
Parrillo explained that the numbers of searches are normalized. So, while the absolute number of New Yorkers searching for “occupy” may be higher, out of all the searches Portlanders are doing, we have the most that are for Occupy. That’s pretty cool. We’re a city of occupy news hounds.
From evil search engine, computer and telecommunications corporations?
Detwinkle! or … whatever.
Is everyone looking to laugh at TWINKLE-MAN ?
Most of those googly Portlanders are simply worried that those stately Dutch Elms will soon be gone, replaced by an impenetrable wilderness of bamboo and cannabis.
i hardly think that any cannabis planted there would have much of an opportunity to develop into anything ‘impenetrable”.
Perhaps our OWS related terms are “boobs” and/or “hot chicks.” We are mega-sluts, after all.
We are so Occupy. Can I use it as an adjective yet? Is that cool? Okay, I’ll shut up.
FREE PORTLAND from the tyranny of the 1% Occupiers !!
Well, don’t we have one of the largest occupy groups per capita? And they have wifi. So we have the most occupiers googling, too.
It’s because we are stupid yet self-consciously so. We don’t want anyone to know that we don’t know what the hell it is all about.