Is this what Al Gore had in mind?

For all the high-minded talk about the Internet as a tool for world trade and a force for democracy, the Web’s main role in daily lives is as the modern equivalent of the girlie magazine, according to this Forbes column. The keyword research tool WordTracker says the names of Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and the Simpson sisters are the most-searched words on the Web these days, along with queries for video game cheats, music lyrics, movie information and sex acts. Nearly as sad as the porn hunters are the lost souls: “Google” is an oft-searched term, meaning people don’t know the difference between the search box and the navigational bar.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

11 Comments

  1. Nathan
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 12:54 am | Permalink

    I couldn’t care less what Al Gore had in mind or has in mind.

    He is gone…

  2. kelly
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 5:58 am | Permalink

    Sooo, I guess you won’t be supportive of Gore if he runs for prez in 2008. Who would you like to see become president next?

  3. dan newland
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    Let’s see – someone who is more concerned that I’m pay over 2 bucks a gallon than he is with big oil profits? Someone who is more concerned that there is money there for the social programs of those that need it than my “personal retirement account”? Someone who doesn’t piss-off the entire rest of the world so I can travel overseas again without being looked at like I was when I came back from Vietnam? Or perhaps someone who doesn’t sound and look like Alfred E. Newman?

  4. kelly
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

    ABBBBOB for president – Anybody But Brother Bush or Brownback.

  5. Joe Williams
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    No liberals though! We as a nation cannot afford a liberal administration.

    Democrats are ok, as long as they are conservative/business orientated ones like Bill Clinton was.

    Bill Clinton was no liberal, thats what made him a pretty good president.

  6. Hammer
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

    Well I’ll just be dipped, Joe! You’re a Bill Clinton fan? I would have never guessed that. Clinton may have had the morals of an allycat, but he was a pretty good president. I think it had a lot to do with how he tried to lead from somewhere near the middle. You know, truth be told, I never cared much for John Kerry. I respected the guy, and I didn’t like what the swift boat vets did to him, but I think he was just too liberal (and looked like Lurch, the butler). Wouldn’t it be great if instead of running moonbats and right-wingnuts, we could get a candadate that would be president for all Americans? Democrat though I may be, I’d vote for John McCain before I’d vote for Howard Dean.

    You know, you had one of the good ones as Gov there in Kansas, Bill Graves. I know Bill; he was a leader, not just a politician. Too bad he didn’t go on to national politics….now there would have been a great president.

  7. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 11:16 pm | Permalink

    Hey, Hammer, I helped Bush get elected. If it wasn’t really late at night, I wouldn’t admit that. But here’s the deAL: I’LL TRADE HIM FOR ANYTHING YOU GOT. Let’s start with a rusty box of paperclips? I’ll come down, don’t get mad?

  8. Hammer
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    Hey Ed, how about a rusty ball-pien with a broken handle and a pinch of belly-button lint?

  9. Hammer
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 8:40 am | Permalink

    Or you could sell him to that village here in Texas that’s missing it’s idiot.

  10. Antares
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    JOE–Toyota recently set up its new plant in Ontario. Alabama had given it millions in tax breaks but it went to Canada.

    Why?

    1. They have higher taxes. Higher taxes means better schools. Better schools means better workers. A lot of the people in Alabama couldn’t even read.

    2. They have national health care. National health care means that businesses don’t have to spend a mint providing it.

    But keep sticking to your “I hate liberals” stance. It’s costing us good jobs and a better society, but it makes you feel SO manly, doesn’t it, big boy?

  11. Hammer
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    Antares, I just read the Toyota article. In Canada, healthcare is a right. In America, it’s a privilige. Something sucks here.