Happy New Year’s Eve. If you are like me then you are at home tonight - alone - and busy rummaging through Iowa polls which seem to tell you everything and nothing at the same time.

In the midst of my pointless searching I came across a convenient little graph, put together by Google, which shows a time line of the most searched-for presidential candidates over the past year.

Click the picture for a larger view: zg_2007_politicians.png

On the same page was a list of the most popular searches overall:

  1. american idol
  2. youtube
  3. britney spears
  4. 2007 cricket world cup
  5. chris benoit
  6. iphone
  7. anna nicole smith
  8. paris hilton
  9. iran
  10. vanessa hudgens

You tell me, is it BAD that I have never heard of number five or number ten on the list?