One measure of interest in reports that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been linked to a prostitution ring is the extent to which people are searching for information on the Internet. Late this afternoon, Google’s Trends page–which “highlights searches that have sudden surges in popularity,” according to Google–was dominated by queries related to Gov. Spitzer and the prostitution story. Such searches accounted for nine of the top 10 “hot trend” words and phrases, as the screenshot below indicates.

–by Tom Weber

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