Farrah Fawcett

Gripe About the Cable Guys if You Want, but They're Having a Very Nice Quarter

Peter Kafka in Media on April 28, 2011 at 9:24 am PT

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you think the TV business is begging for disruption. But for now, at least, it’s doing just fine: Advertisers are spending more on the tube, and so are you.

Search Users Evidently Just a Bunch of Megan Fox-Ogling, WWE-Patronizing Nascar Fans

John Paczkowski in Social on December 1, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

If our search engine queries are, on some level, a reflection of who we are as a people, then we are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all released their lists of the top search queries for 2009 today and they reveal us to be a nation of celebrity-obsessed, swine flu-suffering, vampire-loving, Megan Fox-ogling, Lady Gaga-humming, World Wrestling Entertainment-patronizing Nascar fans.

A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 5:25 am PT

Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome gossip blogger–beat out “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox and “Twilight” hottie-er Robert Pattinson for the top celebrity searched using Bing in 2009. Clearly, Bing’s algorithm needs some tweaking by real people.

Farrah Fawcett Also Remembered on the Web

Kara Swisher in News on June 26, 2009 at 1:22 am PT

While she had almost nothing to do with the Internet, the Web still has a lot to do with Farrah Fawcett, especially today after the iconic Hollywood actress and model died after a long and well-documented battle with cancer. Still, the massive online reaction to a more sudden and unexpected celebrity death yesterday–pop legend Michael Jackson, who was 50–pretty much drowned out Fawcett’s passing at 62 years old. That’s too bad, since she was a genuine cultural phenom–and here is an online video to remind us of that.