The odd items one sees in the query stream; some spiking briefly to the top of the hour, other working their way up slowly over hours or days. What they are, why they show up, and where to find more information about them.

Term: viagra for woman

What: Love Potion

Why: Men who mistake sex for love.

When: Mostly early evening. Time and engine profile suggests non-USA source for many of these queries.

Stats: Raw rank: 9, 2274 per million sampled q's. with no detected variation.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: green card

What: Permanent non-citizen American residency permit.

Why: News articles on statistics, forgeries, and use by terrorists

Stats: Raw rank: 10, 2190 per million sampled q's. with 187 sampled variations.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: immigration

What: Voting with one's feet.

Why: News, policy changes, arrests.

Stats: Raw rank: 17, 1949 per million sampled q's. with 231 sampled variations.

Comment: People think America is the best place to be.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: propecia

Stats: Raw rank: 232, 319 per million sampled q's. with 13 sampled variations.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: ghr15

What: Growth Hormone Releaser 15, another pruported fountain-of-youth drug

Why: Immortality, a quest since pre-historic times.

When: Odd time profile. Likely Asian. Heaviest on non-USA search engines.

Stats: Raw rank: 27, 1545 per million sampled q's. with no detected variation.

Comment: This topic includes queries on HGH, GHR15, GHR-15 and others.%3CP%3E%0D%0A There is more tradition for this type of quest in Asian societies, though the usual form of the quest is for animal terminology, rather than clearly technical terminology.

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: factoring

What: Loans on invoices, the corporate equivalent of a payroll advance.

Why: Tight finances.

Stats: Raw rank: 287, 267 per million sampled q's. with 22 sampled variations.

News: Yahoo

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: new balance

What: A shoe manufacturer competing with Adidas, Rebock, etc.

Why: New dealers and web sites going up every day.

Stats: Raw rank: 3, 4753 per million sampled q's. with 44 sampled variations.

Comment: This started on a non-US English language search engine, but is beginning to be seen on other search engines as well. It has been growing for a few weeks now. Part of the name may be cashing in on the Segway/Ginger scooter surge.

Sites: http://www.newbalance.com

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: t1

What: High speed data line

Why: Growing consumer bandwidth demands and falling costs of telecom services. T1 lines will go where DSL can't.

Stats: Raw rank: 552, 144 per million sampled q's. with 19 sampled variations.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

Term: microscope

What: Way of seeing (or visualizing) small things, including Anthrax.

Why: Promotion, advertising on search engines

Stats: Raw rank: 7, 2519 per million sampled q's. with 47 sampled variations.

Comment: Most of it is concentrated on one non-US engine which seems to have better coverage for commercial microscopes than other search engines. Some of those vendors are buying advertising on Google and other search engines.

News: Yahoo ABC-News

Search: Google AltaVista

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