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Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whole-lotta-hype dept.

xsspd2004 writes "Despite a huge amount of hype, the Monday after Thanksgiving is historically only the 12th-biggest online shopping day of the year. Do a Google search on "Cyber Monday," and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created just a week and a half ago."

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  1. 1st post by oktokie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post!

    1. Re:1st post by somersault · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      aren't you the clever one[/oo-err]

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      which is totally what she said
  2. What's Thanksgiving??? by Burb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well yes, I do know what Thanksgiving is. But since I don't in North America, it's hardly relevant to me. There's a rise in fireworks related injuries in the UK at the start of November, but do you guys in the States have one? The Internet is in-ter-na-tion-al.

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    1. Re:What's Thanksgiving??? by Burb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks for the clarification. But if you search google, you get international results unless you go to great pains to restrict searches geographically. So measuring anything that is US-centric using a world-wide search is pretty meaningless. And I would encourage all Americans to look outside their borders occasionally, just as Europeans and everyone else should do from time to time.

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    2. Re:What's Thanksgiving??? by kmmatthews · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Waitasec. You have a 4 digit UID and you're just figuring this out?

      That's an entirely new realm of slow.

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      feh. stuff.