These questions come up every time "trending" does.
"What are our priorities?" "Why does everyone care so much about third nipples?" "Is 'Miley Cyrus toe ring' really more important that a presidential primary?" etc.
And listen: I get it. I definitely thought it was weird that Stevie was trending higher than Bin Laden. But troubling as the implication may be, I don't think we need to fret for our national character, or anything. We're looking a comparatively small sliver of the population (Do you yahoo? I don't!). I'm pretty sure that if you actually polled Americans, 99.99% would consider the death of Bin Laden to be more important. And just because people are looking up Katie Holmes more often than Mother's Day doesn't necessarily mean they consider her more important.
I mean, I love my mother--she's very possibly my favorite human. But I can't say I've felt the need to look up Mother's Day on a search engine lately. And I probably have looked up some random s***. Doesn't mean I consider "sand swallow nesting" more important. In fact, it really doesn't mean anything at all.
Maybe Katie Holmes is just all kinds of fun to yahoo?
Anyway, just my opinion.