'Assburger's Syndrome' Tops Google Trends after 'Parenthood'

Asperger's Syndrome on Parenthood sparks searches for "Assburgers Sydnrome"

Television viewers flocked to their search engines after last night's episode of Parenthood, which dealt with Asperger's Syndrome (often mistakenly called "Asperger's Disease"). However, millions of people are apparently unfamiliar with the term, and typed in "assburgers syndrome" instead. This is not so much a Google-Trends FAIL as a collective vocabulary FAIL.

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If you type "assburgers syndrome" into Google, the algorithm will correct you, at least as of this morning. Did the pattern of click-throughs following all those searches end up defining the projected "right answer" for this search, thus creating the automatic redirect; or had a steady-but-small number of people been searching for the comically-misspelled "assburgers syndrome" for years?

Asperger's Syndrome: Still Loosely Defined

Asperger's Syndrome is a type of high-functioning autism characterized by several symptoms (though a definitive definition does not exist): imparied nonverbal communication skills, lack of social or empotional reciprocity and narrow or restricted interests. Dysamoria writes about Autism here on NowPublic.

Assburgers Syndrome, on the other hand,  does not exist.