So are people searching for a cure for their symptoms or are they researching 'flu symptoms to make it more convincing when they take a "sickie"?

Just had a quick butcher's at their "Top 100".

"Insomnia cookies" is indeed at number 2. Drilling down gives this very article as the 4th link though(!), so there's something seafood-related going on here. Still got no idea WTF they are. The top link (insomniacookies.com no less, who'd have guessed?) is fubar, although I'm fairly convinced it's biscuit related and nothing to do with the more usual web cruft.

Funnily enough today, "sperm donor" clocks in at 40 and "sperm donation" at 49. This, coupled with the aforementioned need to filter out the porn star searches, means that the most obvious conclusion to be drawn from all this data is that there must be a lot of wankers using google at the moment.

The other interesting thing is how much the top 100 changes from day-to-day. Google's "hive mind" seems to be full of butterflies rather than bees.

Couldn't see any anime stuff making the top 100 though. Are you just having a gratuitous poke at the Otaku here?

Of course, this could indicate that using Google as a search engine gives people the flu?