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Searching For Sanjaya

I've been silent on the whole Sanjaya thing, mostly because I don't watch "American Idol" and don't really care about it. But I did think this bit, in a Time magazine article, was funny:

But what does the American public think of the unlikely Idol star? Of all of the searches for Sanjaya over the last four weeks, 41% were searching on variations of his name, "Sanjaya," or "Sanjaya Malakar," and various misspellings. At least 2.9% searched for information on Sanjaya's sister, who didn't make the cut on the show. The next most popular search topic regarded questions about Sanjaya's sexual orientation, with searches such as "Sanjaya Malakar gay," "Sanjaya gay" and "is Sanjaya gay?" What's missing are searches related to Sanjaya's musical selection or talent.

But I bet a higher percentage of Simon Cowell searches ask the same question.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 16, 2007 05:04 PM