An experiment in search trends visualization. I get the most trending search terms from google, then pipe them through Flickr, Wikipedia, Google News, and other sources to see what they're all about.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Rodney king



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Rodney Glen King was an American man who was most famous for being the victim of an incident of police brutality involving the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3, 1991. A bystander, George Holliday, witnessed the beating and videotaped much of the incident from a distance. (more from wikipedia).


Rodney King 911 call released by police


Rodney King's fiancee said in a frantic 911 call that she woke to the sounds of a fall and found him at the bottom of his swimming pool at his southern California ...
 (more from www.washingtonpost.com).

Scores:total: 0.07, wp: 0.35, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.47

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