{"id":29233,"date":"2006-10-26T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/26\/for-a-brief-shining-moment-directx-was-more-popular-than-another-word-that-ends-in-x\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:00:04","slug":"for-a-brief-shining-moment-directx-was-more-popular-than-another-word-that-ends-in-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061026-04\/?p=29233","title":{"rendered":"For a brief shining moment, DirectX was more popular than another word that ends in x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the month after DirectX&nbsp;3 was released, &#8220;directx&#8221; became the number one most-searched-for term on <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft.com\">microsoft.com<\/a>. That in itself wasn&#8217;t too surprising. What was more surprising was the word in sixth place: &#8220;sex&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> That puzzles me to this day. What kind of people search for &#8220;sex&#8221; on microsoft.com? And what were they expecting to find? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the month after DirectX&nbsp;3 was released, &#8220;directx&#8221; became the number one most-searched-for term on microsoft.com. That in itself wasn&#8217;t too surprising. What was more surprising was the word in sixth place: &#8220;sex&#8221;. That puzzles me to this day. What kind of people search for &#8220;sex&#8221; on microsoft.com? And what were they expecting to find?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-29233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the month after DirectX&nbsp;3 was released, &#8220;directx&#8221; became the number one most-searched-for term on microsoft.com. That in itself wasn&#8217;t too surprising. What was more surprising was the word in sixth place: &#8220;sex&#8221;. That puzzles me to this day. What kind of people search for &#8220;sex&#8221; on microsoft.com? And what were they expecting to find?<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}