2007 Baidu Search Hit Chart

To briefly count, among the top ten fastest-rising keywords, seven are related to money or people's livelihood: Olympic tickets, "won't sell even if I die," rising pork prices, Property Law,钉子户 (nail households), interest rate hikes, and Yang Huizhen. Tickets are bought with money, stock profits and losses are all about money, nail households hold out for money, and being a billionaire obviously means being super wealthy. Money, money, money - in the hearts of entertainment-obsessed netizens, it has finally gained a certain status.

The speed at which Chang'e 1 claimed the top spot was akin to the cosmic velocity of breaking through the atmosphere. The enthusiasm with which netizens embraced Chang'e 1 came on so quickly. The entry for Chang'e 1 on Baidu Encyclopedia had 67 editors and 15,000 words, making it quite detailed.

According to experts, Olympic tickets belong to the category of rigidly scarce resources. In layman's terms, they're once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. The issue is that during the two public sales, the enthusiastic netizens and public almost crashed the ticket reservation website in their rush to buy tickets, demonstrating an urgent anticipation for the Olympics.

There is also an old folk tale about pork: picking up the chopsticks to eat meat but putting down the rice bowl to curse. Times have changed, and with fuller wallets, people now enjoy a certain sense of humor along with their full bellies: Monk Sha remarks that he's heard the meat of his second elder brother (Pigsy) is now more expensive than their master's.