This is a great article. Very interesting. It discusses specific serach terms in which Utah or certain Utah cities are among the most common in the world.

“Consider that predominantly Mormon, family-friendly Utah leads the nation in searches on such terms as LDS Church President “Gordon Hinckley,” “Jesus,” the “second coming,” “scrapbooking,” “baby names,” “potty training,” “quilting,” “Barbie” and the sappy 1980 romantic movie “Somewhere in Time.”

Utahns also apparently are hungry, and guilty about subsequent feasting. Salt Lake City ranked No. 1 in the nation searching for “Twinkies,” “smores,” “cookies,” “chocolate” and “fry sauce” . . . and for “bulimia” and “anorexia.”

The Beehive State also loves professional basketball, ranking No. 1 nationally for the term “NBA draft,” and its sports jones extends to the nearby slopes of the Wasatch Range: Salt Lake City is No. 3 for “skiing,” trailing only snow meccas such as Denver and one of its suburbs.

But explanations fail for some other search entries for which Salt Lake City computer users take top ranking: “Sponge Bob Square Pants,” “sheep,” “earwigs,” and “boogers.” Utah’s capital also has a strange interest in “gerbils,” second only to Cincinnati.

And there apparently are more than a few Utahns looking over their shoulders as they troll the Internet realms of the salacious and fetishism. Salt Lake City ranks No. 1 for the term “panties,” loses out only to Detroit for the voyeuristic “up skirt” search, and is No. 3 – runner-up to first place Meriden, Conn., and No. 2 St. Louis – for “masturbation.” “

4 Comments

  1. Equality August 17, 2006 at 9:14 am

    “And there apparently are more than a few Utahns looking over their shoulders as they troll the Internet realms of the salacious and fetishism. Salt Lake City ranks No. 1 for the term “panties,” loses out only to Detroit for the voyeuristic “up skirt” search, and is No. 3 – runner-up to first place Meriden, Conn., and No. 2 St. Louis – for “masturbation.””

    Must be all those Gentiles” who live in SLC. :-)

  2. Matt Witten August 18, 2006 at 8:43 am

    Having just gone to google trends and searched on the word “boogers” I find this article to be false.

  3. Matt Witten August 18, 2006 at 8:48 am

    upon Further research, I believe there may be a glitch in the program, SLC comes up as number one when The region is narrowed to US, but is not listed at all when run in all regions mode (Even though all other noted cities are in the US)

  4. CraigBa! August 18, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    I’ll fess up: all those Googles for “Somewhere in Time” are by my sister. She loves that movie.

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