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if the search results is totally based on technology, why has SITI's name disappeared suddenly.

Hidden hands at play?

I don't understand. This is something which is not worth to become a topic here in the first place., in a web blog that is supposedly well read by people.

Those were just key words tags somebody found out embedded somewhere in a search engine. BE it deliberately put or otherwise, why make headline here???? If it is deliberate, the person who put the words are childish., and the people who make a headline of this is just equally childish!!!

IS it running out of topic in this blog??

whatever the tech savvy guys say.. at a glance what i saw from the image that Jeff capture and displayed shows "mahathir rape siti nurhaliza"

may be somebody is trying to humilate mahathir or what?

I personaly think this is just a combination of freak coincidence and below than average web programming. I see no problem with people searching 'mahathir' more than 'badawi'. But 'rape'? What's with that, people?

It's pretty simple explaination I think.

Why would you search for Badawi or Mahathir, when every single day there are at least two or three news about them?

But rape, or rogol, is a season thing.

And be realistic la people, the internet's backbone relies on pornography and its kin what. Top keywords in any search engine will always be porn, xxx, sex, rape....... you know, those things. So what's the surprise? Not this.

But this.
http://c-fu.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80292077232F3781!1307.entry

To suggest that a-national newspaper would actually ask their IT-dept to do such a conspiracy bla2 thingy is ridiculous.
It is pure co-incidence.. such search scripts are really easy to develop even by newbie-script kiddies , so i really would like to explain to all that it is an innocent

a 3minute investigative job brings us to this source of the page,
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/searchhi.js
which in fact uses a JScript from http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/searchhi/

Jeff, maybe you would do the more digging in it.
my verdict : its an innocent script.. nothing more than just conspiracy theory by supporters of Tun to get back at NST

Malaysians search for Siti and Rape, that's how it goes, look at Google regional search results.

if you analyse carefully, the 1st result "MAHATHIR, RAPE, SITI NURHALIZA" ...all the words were arranged alphabetically....

Now, the same search engine has jumble up everything...and includes AAB's name in there as well....

Too much of a coincidence?
YEAH RIGHT!!!!!

its just a search-engine script...pls la

I like to comment on comments posted by C-Fu.

The analysis made about Google trends is incorrect. If you clicked on "normalized" you will get the explanation below.

"When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the same city. The city ranking you see on the page and the bar charts alongside each city name both represent this ratio. When cities' ratios are fairly close together, the corresponding bar graphs will be roughly the same length, and the exact ranking between these cities is less meaningful."

What it means is that you cannot make comparison between cities but more as a comparison within the same city because the bar chart shown is in term of ratio between the search of a particular word over the total word search from the same city.

For example, let say total search from KB is 100 and search for word "bogel" is let say 50 (which 50%). Whereas the total search from KL is 1000 and the search for word bogel is 200 (20%). According to Google Trends KB will be ranked higher than KL eventhough in terms on actual numbers KL search for the word is 4 times higher than KB.

i am by nurture, very sceptical of conspiracy theories..
id say.. "one of those things...", shrug, and look at more serious issues.

jeff, my previous post detailing the script sources etc didn't show up.
any reason.?

JEFF OOI says: You have bothered. TypeKey has put your comment on the queue awaiting manualrelease as you may have used a different sign-in password not registered in your TypeKey profile. I had to do a manual approval after your alert.

QUESTION: If indeed "the tag cloud is for the frequncy of the search term being used, not the number of items returned", then does it mean that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -- just for example, the person The NST so eulogised since 2004 -- wasn't frequently searched as the 'phrase' did not show up at all on the NST tag cloud?

ANSWER: Maybe this is just proof of how little the people care for Pak Lah?