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Old 04-01-2005, 11:30 PM
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Google News Search using the words "CIA" and "panel" = 1,690
Google News Search using the quoted phrase "Desperate Housewives" = 2,470
Google News Search using the quoted phrase "March Madness" with "basketball" = 3,770
Google News Search using the word "Darfur" = 4,660
Google News Search using the word "Wolfowitz" = 4,930
Google News Search using the quoted phrase "Michael Jackson" with "molestation" = 12,300
Google News Search using the quoted phrase "Pope John Paul" = 19,900
Google News Search using the quoted phrase "Terri Schiavo" = 61,500

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Google News Search using the quoted phrase "Michael Jackson" with "molestation" = 12,300
Only 12,300? There would be many more if people had been using the Internet in the early 1990s, and countless ones if facial "molestation" were included.
 
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