Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the email I sent to the FSO team yesterday:

I always try to write a personal message for Thanksgiving to send to everyone. This year when I went to write it I realized that half way through it sounded almost the same as last year’s (See attached.) In an effort to do something different I decided to cheat and go to the internet. I went to Google and did a search for “Happy Thanksgiving Message”-everything was of course extremely generic and then at the bottom of the search results page I noticed something I thought was entertaining:

The search I had just done was being rated in Google trends as the 31st most popular search for the day. It was given a “Hotness” tag of “Spicy”, 6% of those that had entered it were from New York and related searches were: happy thanksgiving, happy thanksgiving wishes, happy thanksgiving clip art, happy thanksgiving cards, happy thanksgiving greetings.
Google Search

On that note: I hope you all enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. For those of you that are on-call this weekend-I thank you for your extra efforts and hope that it is a quiet weekend. For those that are off this weekend, don’t get trampled at any stores on Friday.

I appreciate the opportunity to work with you all of you. Have a great Thanksgiving!
So not the sentimental message I sent last year but isn't google awesome? I love the "hotness" tag.

6 comments:

Ruth Anne said...

I once googled how to write a resignation letter and found the perfect one.

Ann said...

I Google everything!

You're a great boss, Kim. FSO is lucky to have you. :)

Queen B said...

was the graph included in the email? :)

I now feel guilty that I didn't send anything out... but my majority is in Mexico, and I think it would be lost. I'll start preparing something great for Christmas ;)

Happy Thanksgiving! I need to start googling kim1champ and analyzing the hotness rate....

Jenn Ann said...

This makes me want to Google random things...

Jane said...

Only 4 comments? This is so darn funny!

Jane said...

I am thankful for the IMAC SLA