I’m a bit intrigued by Google’s new offering: Google Trends.  It’s a service (I guess you can call it that) which shows "surges" in what people are googling, but it employs an algorithm that takes out the obvious stuff (like "weather" or "porn").

I check it out right now, and #4 on the trend list is: how does a kangaroo keep cool.  Why, I wonder, are people all of a sudden interested in this?  Here’s the graph showing the surge:

Google Trends also notes that many of these Google searches on keeping kangaroos cool come from the Tampa and Orlando area.

My guess: it’s a trivia question on some morning talk show or something.

There also seems to be a lot of interest in harry belafonte s daughter