Philly Internet Users Love Bad Words

Turns out we’re not just searching for “penis” here in Philadelphia! Silicon Alley Insider used Google to rank the top cities in the U.S. by number of searches for one of the seven words you can’t say on television, and little ol’ Philadelphia came in third.

Louisville, Ky., was the overall winner, and Rochester, N.Y., took second. Philly narrowly edged out Newark, N.J., and Los Angeles. On the plus side, the blog also notes that Google Trends is being used to show that Pensacola, Fla., is not so pure as a defense in an obscenity case. All we need is an ad campaign to attract pornographers to film their productions here, and the tax bucks will start rolling in.

Google: Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S. [Silicon Alley Insider via Philebrity]
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Wildwood #1 Beach In Worthless Online Poll

In a big eff-you to a bunch of my high school friends who always whined that the Wildwood beach was “too long,” the monstrosity was voted New Jersey’s best beach by some sort of poll, meaning it was 100 percent factual. The poll was also online, which totally ups that even higher somehow.

Wildwood actually bested not only both Wildwood Crest and North Wildwood, despite the former having the advantage of fewer annoying people and the latter having the advantage of no curfew for people under 18, though the beach is closed by then anyway.

The tourism board was angry that some shore resorts jumped the gun on announcing their top-10 status; somehow, Wildwood was first, the Crest second, Ocean City third and North Wildwood fourth. Guh?

Also, Asbury Park was sixth, which I can no doubt say is 100 percent the result of Bruce Springsteen. And, yes, it’s now shore season, which is really all this poll was designed to remind you of anyway.

Voters picks for top-10 beaches [AP/Philly.com]

Phila. Meaninglessly Ranked Again

Walkers in Philadelphia have had it pretty tough over the last couple years. Sure, a recent survey ranked Philadelphia tied for 15th in the country in walkability, but what about the constant ups and downs of walking in this city.

While Philly’s ranked 15th this year, that’s up from 86th last year! Oh, what beautiful changes the city has made over the last 365 days to improve its walkability — things had been slipping from the previous year’s ranking of 31st. So, yeah. Philadelphia’s wild walkability ratings suffered through The Great Concrete Drought Of 2006, but now we are 15th and hopefully won’t have our sidewalks abducted by aliens anytime soon.

Trenton was eighth.

Philly’s the 15th most-walkable city … but watch your step [Daily News]