I'm certainly no spelling bee, but did get a chuckle out of our collective inability to spell the word caucuses.  On Thursday, the day of the Iowa Caucuses, Google Trends picked up on two peculiar searches: the 46th most popular search that day was "iowa caucasus" and the 51st was simply "caucasus".

Turns out the Caucasus are a mountain range in Caucasia, between the Black and Caspian seas, along the border between the Russian Federation, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

Perhaps some Obama supporters linger there as well?

I'm just sayin'...

I'm no rocket scientist, but strikes me that if you're gonna go around and take credit for your successes, that your successes should be just that...successful. 1,944 people who saw something and said something (a rather questionable initiative to begin with IMHO), seems rather miniscule-ish when you consider that over 2 billion (yes, that's billion with a b) utilized NYC transit during the same time period. That puts the success of this PR campaign at .00000097%. Hooray!

Again, nothing fancy, but on the "wamu sucks" front, my puny lil' blog is moving up Google's charts. As of tonight, it finds itself in position #1 of page 3 ...

And just think, I've done nothing to actually publicize my angst just yet...

Yesterday marked the three week anniversary of my blogging campaign vs. WaMu. Haven't made a big stink about it yet, really. I've just been relying on Google's native indexing mechanisms to work their magic... and they already have!

So, in celebration of the 3 week mark, thought I'd share with you this bit of interesting information: that Washington Mutual has been spending considerable amounts of time on my site. As you can see in the image below, they actually spend large chunks of time here. And they've been coming back over and over again.

But curiously, I still haven't heard a peep...

Just a note. Only a week at it, and already interesting Google search traffic coming my way:

Just came across the Ripoff Report, a site "by consumers, for consumers" whose sole purpose is expressed thusly: "Don't Let Them Get Away With It". I'm totally down with that!

Interestingly, there are 15 pages worth of consumer complaints on ... you got it, none other than good 'ol Washington Mutual.

So without further adieu, just click here to enhance your viewing pleasure!

(And, btw, stay tuned! Much more and better stuff to come...)

Turns out that I haven't been left to wallow alone in my WaMu customer service angst. Recently The Consumerist ran this piece about their experience with WaMu, and offered a rather glorious modification of the WaMu logo to boot.

Hmmm ... I wonder what more we'll discover?

I can't even remember the last time I was put through the customer service ringer. You know, it's that feeling you get when one customer service rep passes you on to the next, promising better things to come - a step usually repeated umpteen million times - until you realize that an hour or more have gone by and that you're still no closer to resolving your problem then you were before picking up the phone in the first place. Ring a bell?

Now, thanks to WaMU, I just got a fresh taste of said hellacious experience and people, it sucks!