Google Trend: How Old Is Tom Petty

This is a tad unfair: On the day of the Super Bowl, halftime show performer Tom Petty was the number one search on Google Trends. Wait, you say, what’s wrong with that? Who wouldn’t want to be the number one search? Well, see, the search term wasn’t just his name, but rather the top search yesterday was “How old is Tom Petty?”
Sad to say, my wife asked this question and I did Google it during the performance (though I just Googled his name, knowing Wikipedia had the answer). Petty’s 57, which prompted both me and my wife to exclaim that Tom looks a whole hell of a lot older than he actually is. The little lady said, “He isn’t aging well”. I think a lot of people thought that, hence the top search position.

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