Crank up the band, and ready the caps and gowns. Graduation time is here. It's the last stop on the passage to adulthood before America's high school students all head into the NBA draft.
Graduation searches actually begin to rise as early as February. For the next three months they grew at a steady rate of 15 percent per week. At the end of April, graduation starts to get really popular, and searches have doubled in the last three weeks.
Here are last week's top 12 graduation-related searches, and what percentage of total graduation searches they represented.
16.8% graduation poems
16.4% graduation speeches
11.3% graduation gifts
8.4% graduation clipart
4.4% graduation invitations
3.2% graduation quotes
3.2% graduation announcements
2.8% graduation songs
2.6% graduation party ideas
2.3% graduation cards
1.9% graduation pictures
1.5% Vitamin C graduation song
Poems, again! They seem to be popular for every holiday and every occasion. It is a bit of an upset; we would have expected speeches to be #1. As for graduation gifts, Lycos Shop has a huge selection for the graduate in your life.
What, you may ask, is the Vitamin C graduation song? The song is actually called "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by the pop singer Vitamin C (a.k.a. Colleen Fitzpatrick). It was a big hit in high schools across America during last year's graduation and is popular once again this year. You can download the song at Lycos Music.
Only a few graduation searches referenced high school (5.2%), and even fewer referenced college (0.9%). We did have a few Lycos users that asked for kindergarten graduation. They're so cute in their little caps and gowns.
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