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The word ‘cabbit’ topped the list of Google’s “Hot Trends” list of search terms yesterday, October 1st. Apparently late-night host Jay Leno showed a classified ad for cabbits in his Headlines segment, where he highlights strange typos and other things viewers clip from newspapers and send into the show. The accompanying graph shows that it shot up at 7PM PDT and reached its peak at 8pm and fell by 9pm. Google Trends updates hourly so that spike likely includes the later part of the hour since Leno’s show doesn’t start airing on the East Coast until 11:34 PM [8:34 PM PDT]. I haven’t been able to find any video of it yet (the episode might show up in the iTunes Store in a week or so) but I thought it was kind of interesting that such a typo could spark an anime-related rise in search volume.