NBC's Rolling Stone Phillips Gathers Moss on Google Trends

Photo of Ken Shepherd.
By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
May 22, 2007 - 17:07 ET

Okay, I don't really get this, but apparently Stone Phillips, the just-laid-off "Dateline NBC" anchor, tops the list at "Google Trends" today.

You don't believe me?! I thought you wouldn't. See screencaps below the fold. By comparison, the late Jerry Falwell, whose funeral was today, came in at only #10.

Keep in mind the trend doesn't mean Phillips is the hottest search on the Web, just the "fastest-rising." According to Google:

With Hot Trends, you can see a snapshot of what's on the public's collective mind by viewing the fastest-rising searches for different points of time. You can see a list of the current top 100 fastest rising search queries in the U.S.


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Is this post to be filed in t

May 22, 2007 - 17:47 ET by balboa

Is this post to be filed in the same category as the great Star Wars debate of yesterday?

...and you might have just

May 22, 2007 - 18:44 ET by lnthomp

...and you might have just given him another boost by mentioning him here :-) :-P

Lee T.

U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain

Mentioning who ;-)Help a woun

May 22, 2007 - 18:47 ET by Clear thinker

Mentioning who ;-)

Help a wounded soldier here...

http://newsbusters.org/node/12877

Who is Stone Phillips?

May 22, 2007 - 19:53 ET by LionKing

Who is Stone Phillips? and more importantly, how did he become more trendy than Dragon Skin Armor?

Lion,LOL-I'm still trying to

May 23, 2007 - 06:35 ET by Dave R

Lion,

LOL-I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that he somehow managed to beat out kenmore 16237 -whatever that is.

I looked up the Kenmore 162

May 23, 2007 - 13:30 ET by balboa

I looked up the Kenmore 16237, and it's apparently some kind of gas grill. It must have been highlighted on some show.

Stone, Mackenzie, and Chynna

May 23, 2007 - 06:39 ET by Cool Arrow

All Children of the Mammas and Papas.  Or was that Stoner Phillips

Isaiah 32:5-8 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error aga