Some Follow-Up On Our Friend, NYP Tammy

Yesterday when I posted about Tammy from Singapore having a monopoly on the top 5 Technorati searches, I wound up getting a better look at exactly how much interest there is in her (or is it all interest in trying to download her video, more than interest in her? Probably…)

Most of the posts I’ve made on this site (in the 10 days since I started it) have gotten about 15 or 20 hits, a lot of those from search engines indexing me. Yesterday’s post, “Good Old “Tammy NYP” Has the Internet Cornered”, has gotten 843 hits so far, and is still going pretty strong with about 10 hits an hour. That’s a lot of people searching for her. Almost all of them came from Technorati, with just a little bit of Icerocket thrown in for some variety. (Actually, one of the biggest surprises, after the sheer numbers, was that there are still a few people searching for brrreeeport. Oops. I thought it was safe to invoke it’s unholy God-forsaken name. Die brrreeeport, die!)

And now to look at my question from yesterday. Are these all just people from Singapore who are interested, or has she gotten more international attention?

Since I had so many hits from people looking for Tammy, I checked my logs to see what they looked like. Most of the hits were from the United States, but it wasn’t an overwhelming majority. A good third of the traffic did come from Singapore (29% to be exact). That’s enough traffic to make this a notable search on its own, I would expect.

So, my theory is that this was a very Singapore-based story. I don’t know if it’s the culture there, where this is probably a much bigger deal than it is in the US, or if it’s just local interest, but that’s my guess. Once people in Singapore started posting and searching for it, and it started showing up on Technorati, that got the rest of the world interested (after Singapore and the US, the country with the most interest in my post was Australia.) And that just snowballed into this giant “what’s the fuss about, let me try to find her video and post about it and oh look, more fuss” ball of underage porn searchers. For anyone looking for her video, don’t forget that she’s only 17. Perverts.

I still don’t completely understand the amount of attention here and all the hoopla (I don’t use the word hoopla enough. It’s a fun word. Say it with me how: hoop-la. Fun!) but it makes a bit more sense.

I’m also glad to report that the Technorati searches aren’t totally Tammy right now. Unless the Youtube search is people hoping to find her on there, which is a definite possibility, since “Tammy Youtube” was a big search yesterday. If that’s the case, then yes, she still has the top 5 cornered. That probably says something crappy about our society.

In fact, let’s look more closely. The searches about unimportant things in the world (basically Tammy, American Idol, and Myspace) are 10 of Technorati’s top 15. The things that matter more (like Bush, Iraq, and the UAE ports controversy) make up only 5 of the top 15. I wish I remembered how it looked before Tammy invaded; I think it was a little more sane than that, wasn’t it?

At least that terrible search term, “Tammy NYP” that I ranted about yesterday isn’t in the top 15 any more. Thank you Search Gods. What a stupid, stupid search term. Sorry. I still can’t get over seeing that as number 1.

Hopefully soon everyone will find the video, watch it, say “oh, I expected something better” and we’ll all stop talking about her. (No, I haven’t seen the video, I have no interest in some random 17-year-old Singapore chick. I just assume that it’s not going to live up to this kind of hype.)

Until then, happy searching. Perverts.