March 21, 2006
Googling in the billions.
Which words, searched in Google, yield over a billion hits? "Blog" is one. What has more? "Internet." What word has the most? I don't know. It isn't "sex." "Love" has more than "sex," though still painfully less than "blog"! Is there a name that hits a billion? Not "Bush," and it has two Presidents, not to mention all the shrubbery.
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You think "the" is first? "WWW" has more.
"Web" - 14,460,000,000
"News" - 11,060,000,000
"The" - 23,170,000,000
And yes, I'm bored this evening.
P.S. Believe it or not, "porn" hits only 166 million.
"Sale" gets 1.43 billion.
Oddly the first hit is Human For Sale - Have you been thinking about putting yourself up for sale lately? Ever wonder how much money you could get on the open human market?
How does that come up first?
And yes, I'm bored this evening.
Hee hee - I should be mopping the kitchen. So, instead I'm commenting.
dave, I get 12.49 billion for "it" and 16.8 billion for "is". You're using plain old Google.com, with SafeSearch off?
"WWW" beats "the" and even "a."
Obviously, the results numbers are variable. I get 20.11 billion for "the," 20.27 billion for "a," and only 19.24 billion for "www."
"the" has 22 billion.
"America" has more than "blog".
Beatles: 49.9 million
Jesus: 209 million
I guess Lennon was wrong...
New: "13,350,000,000"
News: "10,400,000,000"
"Your" - 14,130,000,000
"Our" - 9,530,000,000
"My" - 6,440,000,000
(This is a bit heartening, really, don't you think? Of course, there are a lot of "features" that start with "your." Then again, I would have guessed there were more starting with "my." Mixed bag, therefore.)
"I" - 9,620,000,000
"We" - 8,030,000,000
"Me" - 4,020,000,000
And then there's this:
"Home" - 18,650,000,000
Sonuva****.
(I don't think I've EVER had this many tabs open at one time, and also this many windows. Fun.
Ann! You enabler, you!
; ) )
Heh.
That "****" is missing a "*" at the end.
LOL.
Then there's:
"search" - 15,100,000,000
as opposed to:
"google" - 1,780,000
"is" - 16,760,000,000
"is 'is' " - 11,620,000
Heh.
Please, someone, stop me before I google again!
Yikes!
joshp: The popularity of "www" is no surprise, given how Google works, by examining links to pages as well as the pages themselves.
That is true. So, I was interested to see what the 'Sponsored Links' would be to that non-word. It's 'Enhance your Breasts". I tried 'http' next and the top sponsored link is "Breast Enhancement Pills".
I wonder how much the Breast people pay to have their link come up for letters no one would ever search on.
Um, I left three very significant zeros off of "is 'is' ":
11,620,000,000
NOW my "heh" makes some sense, yes?
"U.S." - 14,870,000,000
"Europe" - 1,910,000,000
(Go ahead--google Canada, China, middle and/or mid east etc., just for fun.)
reader wrote: Um, I left three very significant zeros off of "is 'is' ":
11,620,000,000
NOW my "heh" makes some sense, yes?
Marginally!
Reader, take a deep breath and relax. Repeat after me, "Google will always be there, I can search another day". Repeat that three times.
If it doesn't work - well, I tried :)
Esk:
I went back to doing laundry and sorting some papers.
Very grounding.
All better now. Also, thanks!
'Night!
isn't googling "internet" like looking up "Dictionary" in the dictionary?
I wonder if there's a number that when you google it, returns that number. 'billion' has half a billion hits. 'million' has 1.5 billion.
It's interesting that the number of hits for 'one', 'two', 'three', ... 'nine' steadily decreases, then jumps back up at 'ten'.
Well, I thought it was interesting
Madison, if that happens then the singularity is achieved and either the internet explodes or we all get free tacos from Taco Bell. I forget which.
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