by Mike Krumboltz Millions of cars have been recalled over the past several months. Toyota has bared the brunt of the bad publicity, but rivals Honda , GM , and Nissan have recalled many of their cars as well. This sudden surge has spurred an interesting trend in the Yahoo! Search box: Web lookups on " how does a recall work " are roaring. What's the biggest auto recall ever ? The fascination is easy to understand. Fortunately, for the curious,