NationStates Jolt Archive

I thought I would look up a few random historical and more recent people, and heres what I came up with:

Google searches yield:

51,800,000 for George Washington

38,400,000 for George Bush

25,700,000 for Jesus

23,800,000 for John Paul II

21,100,000 for John Kennedy

14,500,000 for Porn (as a sort of average, you understand :P)

8,990,000 for Tony Blair

8,040,000 for Prince William

7,200,000 for Catherine the Great

6,790,000 for Prince Harry

6,550,000 for Henry Ford

5,400,000 for Satan

5,220,000 for Queen Victoria

5,210,000 for Benjamin Franklin

4,150,000 for Abraham Lincoln

3,780,000 for Franklin Roosevelt

3,010,000 for Karl Marx

2,400,000 for Henry VIII

2,310,000 for Ho Chi Minh

2,160,000 for Thomas Edison

1,950,000 for Jacques Chirac

1,920,000 for Ariel Sharon

1,120,000 for Caligula

1,080,000 for yasser Arafat

752,000 for Augustus Caesar

742,000 for Pol Pot

669,000 for Napoleon Bonaparte

655,000 for Joseph Stalin

604,000 for Mao Zedong

577,000 for Mikhail Gorbachev

569,000 for Genghis Khan

257,000 for Adolph Hitler (8,110,000 for just Hitler, though)

235,000 for Attila Hun

220,000 for Leon Trotsky

131,000 for Nikita Khrushchev

69,100 for Nicholas Romanov

57,800 for Chang Kai Shek

30,800 for Anastasia Romanov

21,600 for Isoroku Yamamoto

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I was rather suprised. Khrushchev AND Hitler got fewer searches than Pol Pot...
And there was only one search that outdid Washington, and that was God :P
I decided that would spark a debate as to whether or not God was a famous person, so I didnt put it in.

...Isn't Google's database and results number based on recommendations of others?

Bush is more recommended than Jesus?

...got Bush?


...that so came out wrong.

...Isn't Google's database and results number based on recommendations of others?

Bush is more recommended than Jesus?

...got Bush?


...that so came out wrong.better than "want Bush?"

I was suprised that Catherine the Great got more hits than Napoleon or any WWII era dictator O_o

I was suprised that Catherine the Great got more hits than Napoleon or any WWII era dictator O_o

Ah, but none of them were supposedly crushed to death by a horse whilst trying to have sexual congress with it, were they? You just can't buy that kind of publicity.

Google searches yield:

51,800,000 for George Washington

Seems to me like you didn't use apostrophes around the search terms - try it as "George Washington" and you get 9,630,000 results.


7,200,000 for Catherine the Great

"Catherine the Great" - 189,000 results.

old people- 162 000
fat people- 5 720
smelly people- 178
living people-45 900
dead people- 23 800

God 61.8 M

Ah, but none of them were supposedly crushed to death by a horse whilst trying to have sexual congress with it, were they? You just can't buy that kind of publicity.
Bah, she had a stroke whilst she was on the pot, nobody was in the room at the time so she died :P
Of course, if she had been mainstream European royalty she would have had at least six people int he room at the time. Silly Russian customs, Im afraid.

She DID have a secret room portraying graphic bestiality, paedophillia and suchlike, as well as regular sex acts performed in odd ways. Apparently she was a fan of sex, but usualy with her own species.

Ted Woolsey-81,500

Pretty weird results, considering what you'd expect to see from a search for some of those names...

Incidentally, my name came up with 315,000 results, and it's not a particularly popular name either... though strangely enough there is a freeware computer game with my exact name as its title :/. I'm going to be having words with some people...

Pretty weird results, considering what you'd expect to see from a search for some of those names...

Incidentally, my name came up with 315,000 results, and it's not a particularly popular name either... though strangely enough there is a freeware computer game with my exact name as its title :/. I'm going to be having words with some people...
Well, if you search for those names and put them in quotation marks (so it search for "george washington" instead of searching for "george" and "washington" and combining those results), the results are a little different.

For instance, any article about George Bush in Washington, D.C., will come up as a result for a search for George Washington if you don't use the quotation marks. Not to mention all the results if you searched for just george or just washington all come up if you search for George Washington without quotation marks.

At least the Christians will be happy that Jesus and JPII got significantly more results than "porn". :)

I was rather suprised. Khrushchev AND Hitler got fewer searches than Pol Pot...
Unlike you, most people spell Hitler's first name as "Adolf". That's why it yielded so few results.

I was rather suprised. Khrushchev AND Hitler got fewer searches than Pol Pot...

That's cause you spelled "Adolf" wrong...

"****** Innis" - 3440

That's cause you spelled "Adolf" wrong...
Thats how Google spelled it :P

Thats how Google spelled it :P
Search for "adolph"

1,050,000 results. Top result is Coors.com.


Search for "adolf"

3,850,000 results. Top result is historyplace.com.


Nuf said?

Bah, similar names that I got mixed up.
Sue me :P

Thats how Google spelled it :PJust means that there are a lot of other people that got it wrong too. I've gotten results for "Afghistan" before.

If you know how to use Google (and pay attention), Google can be the best spell checker in the world...especially if you use the define: style search.

By the way, "adolph" is a front somersault with 3 1/2 twists.

5,920,000 for Mohammed
5,590,000 for George Lucas
4,210,000 for Gandhi
2,850,000 for Oliver Stone
2,840,000 for Steven Spielberg
2,730,000 for Charles Darwin
1,570,000 for Jimi Hendrix
1,310,000 for Clint Eastwood
936,000 for Sergio Leone
867,000 for Quentin Tarantino
704,000 for Francis Ford Coppola
604,000 for Henry the navigator
390,000 for Pierre Trudeau

Did you use quotation marks around each full name?

...got Bush?

Unfortunately...

*cries*

Did you use quotation marks around each full name?nope.

Bah, she had a stroke whilst she was on the pot, nobody was in the room at the time so she died :P

Note the used of the word 'supposedly' in my post: I wasn't claiming truth for the urban legend, just noting its effects.