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A Trend On Google Trends?

Last week, Google Trends monitors were taken aback by the appearance of a swastika among the Hot Trends list. Yesterday, another graphic popped up and stayed there, an upside down and backwards message to Google itself.

Swastika A Google Hot Trend?

While perusing Google's Hot Trends list yesterday, you might have noticed something out of place: a swastika symbol. It was out of place for a few reasons. 1.) Obviously, the swastika is now (and perhaps forever) associated with reviled Nazism. 2.) Ironically, its origins are rooted in Jainism, which emphasizes equality and protection of all life—even bugs. 3.) There's no swastika key on anybody's Roman-lettered keyboard, unless specially made for skinheads.

Midwest Clipper Sends Students Googling

Every morning I like to visit at Google's Hot Trends page to see what's on the minds of searchers out there. Usually it's reflective of the morning news, but this morning it read like a school closings report.