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1. Wiki (+ 268 redirect hits per day) 2. The Beatles (+ 60,737 redirect hits per day) 3. YouTube (+ 6,163 redirect hits per day) 4. Christmas (+ 384 redirect hits per day) 5. Ponzi scheme 6. Wikipedia (+ 713 redirect hits per day) 7. Favicon.ico 8. Deaths in 2008 (+ 4,172 redirect hits per day) 9. Hanukkah 10. Twilight (2008 film) (+ 1,511 redirect hits per day) 11. United States (+ 10,085 redirect hits per day) 12. Facebook (+ 399 redirect hits per day) 13. Virgin Killer 14. The Dark Knight (film) (+ 1,541 redirect hits per day) 15. Twilight (novel) (+ 3,239 redirect hits per day) 16. Heroes (TV series) (+ 6,659 redirect hits per day) 17. Robert Pattinson (+ 10 redirect hits per day) 18. Barack Obama (+ 56,551 redirect hits per day) 19. Naruto (+ 1,636 redirect hits per day) 20. Sex (+ 859 redirect hits per day) 21. Rod Blagojevich 22. Lil Wayne (+ 6,644 redirect hits per day) 23. Edward Cullen (Twilight) (+ 2,010 redirect hits per day) 24. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film) 25. Seven Pounds
A less detailed analysis... Mind that for some odd reason on December 2008 people shown a lot of interest in topics like Ponzi scheme, Christmas, Virgin Killer, Twilight (2008 film), Twilight (novel), Robert Pattinson.
The reason for that is...
The last three items (Twilight (2008 film), Twilight (novel), Robert Pattinson): These are related to the Twilight saga (whatever it is - I really do not care) which released the movie or something...
Virgin Killer: had a controversy surrounding it over the controversial album cover. Read about it if you like at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer#Internet_censorship
Christmas: 25 Dec... Seems like people needed to learn about it from Wikipedia...
Ponzi scheme: had a controversy on 11 Dec concerning former chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market Bernard Madoff. Fun part of it is that more people cared about the meaning of Ponzi scheme than Bernard Madoff himself. If you care to read more about it, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme#Bernard_Madoff
At a glance you can see that there is an overflow of fiction related topics. This is primarily due to releases in December. If you put it in the context of a year-long statistics most of those will not even show as a blip. So I really do not see a threat in fiction related articles.
- White Cat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme#Bernard_Madoff