This is a sequel to the earlier post that I had made yesterday regarding the “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ” that was the top result in Google Trends yesterday.

Today, there is one more weird result among the top 10 results. The result is “how to poop at work”. Now my question is: What happened today that people are searching for this particular search term. Google News search for this shows nothing of significance, which makes me suspicious regarding what is exactly wrong with Google Trends.

Here is the official word from Google that Los Angeles Times blog has received.

The Hot Trends list is automatically generated by machines and algorithms that detect hot or breaking queries. In this case, it appears that the html code for this query was posted on a popular internet bulletin board, which led to quite a few people searching to find out more about this symbol. The Hot Trends list reflected that surge due to people searching with this query.

Now, this is an interesting thing, because Google is infact denying that there was any tampering with hte Google Trends webpage per say. It implies to some extent that Google is accepting that there “WERE” those many searches being done for the “Swastika” symbol and the “F*** you google” which leads credence to my hypothesis that there is some mass-bot or attack under way because I can in no way think that all Americans will suddenly wake up one day and search for a (卐)? (Ya this is the Swastika symbol which everyone was searching. If it had been the word, “Swastika” then I would have probably accepted it but the symbol? No WAY!

Now, coming to this latest “how to poop at work” search, I fail to understand why are people searching for it.

Google: How to Poop at work

Last time I got loads of comments that it was “EbaumsWorld” behind this. (This seems to be some online forum) But I fail to believe that any single forum however large it might be has the potential to gain the first spot in Google.

Let’s see how this goes.