Can someone please explain this to me? Because I'm stumped.

[angledge]

I use Yahoo! for email (stop groaning). Whenever I check my email, there's a little landing page that shows me top Yahoo! news stories & some other stuff, including a box titled "Trending Now". I think this shows Yahoo! web searches that are currently popular. I often glance at them, but today my head snapped back because the Top Three were:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Vlad the Impaler
3. Hope Solo

WTH? Genocidal dictator (modern), homicidal warlord (historical), & awesomely-named goalie (US women's soccer team). What brought any of them to mind today?

Comments

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Oh, or it could be that thing about the people in New Jersey who named their kid Hitler and had him taken away.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

What, people have to brush up on why it's a bad idea to name your kid "Hitler"?

"Hey honey, look at this Wikipedia article... that Hitler guy was pretty nasty... maybe naming a kid after him is a bit weird."

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"I thought he was one of those two crotchety old guys on the Muppet Show. You know, Hitler and Waldorf?"