by Michael Arrington on July 10, 2008

A number of people noticed a swastika (卐) on the hot trends list of Google Trends this morning.

Google took the site down with a message that it was undergoing network maintenance and should be available again in a few hours. Then, minutes later, the site was back up, with the swastika still listed as the thirteenth hottest search term.

Update: It’s now been removed or has fallen off the hot trends list.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/10/swastika-appears-on-google-trends/