Hey ma, look what I found!
I wasn't really in need of finding that particular breast, though of course in
the name of science I wanted to see, almost two months later, how easy it might
be to do so. Of course it was clear that it wasn't going to be difficult, so I
had to make it a bit of a challenge - sort of handicapping myself.
I typed "Janet Jackson" and breast into the search window
of Google, and instead of choosing "Google search", I chose the path
of "I'm Feeling Lucky". I was serendipitously
blessed with The
Amateur Gourmet: Janet Jackson Breast Cupcakes - a wonderful page that, yes,
did include a photo - not only of the cupcakes, the recipe for which seemed actually
quite tasty. It was, by the way, a page that brought about a
drastic hike in hits to the the Amateur's web site.
I can't crawl into the heads of the people who ran searches on Janet Jackson after
the Superbowl, but my guess is that most of these people weren't searching for
information about the breast (like, let's say, it's dimensions? it's history?),
or about the controversy in general, and most certainly not about the phenomenon
of massive web searching for an item in the news. My guess is that most of the
people who searched for the breast would have been satisfied with a passable photograph
or two, and finding one proved, even a couple of months later, to be very simple.
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