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  • Even More Oktoberfest Fun

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    I know there are a few people who didn’t get to dust of their lederhosen and make it to the annual Oktoberfest celebrations at Penn Brewery and Hofbrauhaus.  But there is more Oktoberfest fun to be had in Pittsburgh…

    PUMPtoberfest – celebrate fall and 15 years of PUMP with unlimited beer
    October 8, 2010
    7pm-Midnight
    Pittsburgh Opera in the Strip District – 2524 Liberty Ave, 15222
    Facebook Event Page

    The Knights of Columbus and St. Thomas á Becket Oktoberfest
    Oct. 16, 2010
    Mass begins at 5 p.m. with sacred hymns to a polka-style beat by the Henny & The Versa J’s.
    7 to 10 pm – After the Mass, dinner and dancing will be from at the VIP-Garden Room along Corritan Drive in South Park.
    The public is invited. For more information, call 412-655-2885.

    Sisters of Divine Providence Church Oktoberfest
    October 16, 2010
    Allison Park, PA
    Thanks to the Savvy Grouse for the heads up on this event.

    Pizza Sola is stocked with Oktoberfest Beers – you can read about their favorite Oktoberfest beers here.

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  • Top Google Searches in Pittsburgh

    So what are Pittsburghers really searching for online? Over the past year, I have been following the idea of search a little more closely. I know that lots of people come to IheartPGH looking for more info about Big Jim’s In the Run – I was a little confused by how this could be so popular because the post about Big Jim’s is from 2006. Fortunately, I was sharing this story with someone who watches the Food Network and apparently there was an episode of Diners, Drive-in and Dive’s where they visited Big Jim. Check out the great photos of dinner at Big Jim’s from awesome Pittsburgh food bloggers Joe and Betsy.

    I have also been upgrading the search here at IheartPGH – thanks to a nifty tool called Lijit – you can now get more info from the searches and I can learn more about what the searches are about (and the folks at Lijit are super nice too – they even fixed some formatting errors on my site).

    But today’s post on HyperLocal Blogger (a great blog about local blogs) points out the Google Zeitgeist page and the top searches by city. Here are the top searches for Pittsburgh from the past year:

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    Pittsburgh, PA

    1. carnegie library oakland
    2. hofbrauhaus
    3. rivers casino
    4. cmu directory
    5. ccac blackboard
    6. kdka news pittsburgh
    7. cmu blackboard
    8. cmu hub
    9. parkvale online banking
    10. port authority pittsburgh
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