# Yahoo! -- Trending Now -- simple question **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865 "2010-10-30T12:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865/1 "2010-10-30T12:58:36Z")
> **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! Whenever some celebrity’s name is in that grouping (normally 10 of them) of “hot topics” what’s your first reaction? I just now saw James Gandolfini’s name there and thought, “Oh, no! Tony Soprano’s dead!” Turns out he looks like Shrek when he’s riding a scooter in the city. :mad: My best guess is that 8/10 times it’s a publicity gimmick sort of thing. But 2/10 times it will be a death or terrible happening. What do you expect to see if you click? Do you even bother to click anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865/2 "2010-10-30T15:53:20Z")
I did a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573037) on Yahoo Trending not long ago. The gist of it was, I find it highly suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865/3 "2010-10-30T18:45:51Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > I did a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573037) on Yahoo Trending not long ago. The gist of it was, I find it highly suspicious. I don’t participate in The Pit threads. Didn’t see yours. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865/4 "2010-10-30T20:28:57Z")
Oh no, did \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ die? is my most typical kneejerk reaction. It’s been often enough that clicking on any of those names takes me to a story about the celebrity’s latest project that I click on them a lot less often than I used to (which was hardly often, anyway.) I will still click if it’s a celebrity of a certain age, while wondering if anyone has that name on his death pool list. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-trending-now-simple-question/558865/5 "2010-10-31T04:51:47Z")
My simple question would be how to get rid of the bloody thing altogether. Since Google FUBARed their image search engine… well their whole search engine but let’s focus on the image one… I’ve been using yahoo image search more often, which works well except every time I open the page I have the wall of inanity AKA Trending, where two bit “celebrities” mingle with some people I may actually have heard off but nonetheless have no interest whatsoever in their lives. I’m puzzled on why would the people at Yahoo just assume that every person that uses their image search is some sort of celebriholic that they feel the need to make their entry page a collage of “Best of the Worst” at the news stand. [/Rant off]