Search of the Day: Fail

On the flipside of last week’s ‘Awesome‘ post is the realm of ‘fail’ (see also ‘to be full of lose and fail’, ‘pwned‘, ant: full of Win and Awesome). From the same sentiment as pwned, fail has managed to pick up steam also as a popular caption for loldogs and cats. Let’s take a quick look at what fail-related terms people search for.

Fail on its own generates a staggering 368,000 searches per month. If that’s not enough, it’s a term that got very little traffic the same time last year based on search trends available, even though it seems like the meme has been around for awhile - call it a win for fail (or would it be fail fail?). Related extremes of the term also drive significant traffic – epic fail, for example, generates 49,500 Google searches per month (a massive misspelling/complete lack of vocabulary related to this – epoch fail – drives 320). Fail Blog, a top source for fail images and video, gets a crack at 60,500 searches per month for its name alone. Fail pictures drives 5,400 searches per month and fail videos inspires 2,900. Even fail posters drive 720 searches per month – hell, there’s a business model that can be built around it!

What kinds of things are people eager to see fall apart, screw up, or go utterly effing wrong?

• Fail cat: 1,000 searches / month – What meme would be complete without involving copious pictures of cats?
• English fail: 480 searches / month – See also Engrish.
• Dance fail: 390 searches / month - The possibilities are endless.
• Fail train: 260 searches / month - People all over the world, join hands, start a fail train…
• Computer fail: 91 searches / month
• Lyrics fail: 19 searches / month

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