Apr 24, 2005
AOL Users Don’t Care About Science!
According to America Online’s top searches for Spring this year, most of its users are looking for baseball players, diets, holiday destinations, wedding-related stuff, tax forms, proms, flowers, and other such matters. The nearest they get to anything academic is homework and university searches (Duke is the most popular search apparently). I didn’t see one mention of science, technology, nor computing. But, what is very worrying is that no one was looking for money off vouchers and online coupons, which is odd given the number of visitors the Sciencebase online coupons site gets each day (many of those from AOL). You can read the full listing here: AOL unveils hottest searches for spring 2005, but to be honest the lack of certain subjects suggests to me that this is not a complete list by any means.
An odd little search that appears frequently these days, at least in the UK, is www direct gov uk taxdisc. I can only assume it’s people looking for where to buy their taxdisc for their car online, although we prefer to use our Post Office.
