Popularity contest: What are people more interested in, Godzilla or pancakes? Well, according to Google Trends, more people search the Web for information on syrup-covered breakfast foods than for the King of Monsters. But there are exceptions: in Los Angeles and Houston, Godzilla stomps all over your short stack. But in Toronto, flapjacks win by a decisive margin. It wasn’t always this way either, as the time-line graph reveals. In 2004, Godzilla apparently did a lot more traffic. Was breakfast just less popular back then? Visit www.google.com/trends to speculate.
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