I’ve always wanted to hack into the google headquarters and see what are the most common search terms. From looking at the statistics of my website, I can get somewhat of an idea. Hey, I do it too. In the privacy of my own room when no one is looking, I’ve searched for some pretty embarrassing terms. Like when I first started dating and googled, “how to be a good kisser”, or when I gave in to the media hype about the singer from hong kong and typed in, “Edison Chen sex scandal pictures”. If google were to publish a study about this, it would be an amazing snapshot of actual social attitudes that are publically repressed.

I’ve been following American Idol this season because I’ve recently been struck by Indian fever and have fallen in love with Anoop. Unforunately, he’s been voted off – but Adam Lambert has recently caught my attention. An extremely talented, confident, 27 year old from San Diego and favored to win the competition. But people are asking: can a gay idol win? I thought this quote from a NYT article (#7 on the most read rankings) was quite telling.

Unlike other reality shows, said Joe Jervis — a gay activist blogger whose recent mention of Adam Lambert on his site Joe My God generated 50,000 hits from people searching the term “Is Adam Lambert Gay?”

Yes. Before you even ask, I’ve typed that in as well. Pretty much verbatim too. Yeah – we all talk about how sexual orientation doesn’t matter, just like how we shouldn’t talk about people behind their backs, but in the end, people eat up scandal and gossip like vultures descending on prey. I can’t explain it nor can I say I like it; the only thing I can do is admit that I am guilty of it as well.  It would be an interesting experiment to see how many visitors find my site via that search term.