'Making Google’s Top Ten. Above Hannah Montana & below Cheryl Cole…' blog discussion

Former_MSE_Lawrence · 11 December 2008 at 11:21AM

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's 'Making Google’s Top Ten. Above Hannah Montana & below Cheryl Cole…' Blog.

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fermi · 11 December 2008 at 11:37AM

The Google Trends links in the article don't work for me.

I think there have been some formatting errors in the urls when you copied them over from Google?

trf197 · 11 December 2008 at 1:27PM

Links don't work for me either

meester · 11 December 2008 at 1:40PM

I can see all the pictures of you on this site :money: swelling even bigger......

I'm surprised you missed the opportunity to say you are bigger than Jesus Christ:

http://www.google.co.uk/trends?q=%22jesus+christ%22%2C%22martin+lewis%22&ctab=0&geo=GB&date=all&sort=0

Airwolf1 · 12 December 2008 at 1:50AM

Interesting against gordon brown.

poppy10_2 · 12 December 2008 at 2:03AM

LOL, Martin Lewis vs Robert Peston - who is better?

There's only one way to find out.... FIGHT!!!

poppy10_2 · 13 December 2008 at 10:54AM

mr_jetlag · 15 December 2008 at 11:37AM

Not even close:

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Martin+Lewis&word2=Robert+Peston

Although both Martin and Robert get smacked down by a certain Miley Cyrus:

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Martin+Lewis&word2=Hannah+Montana

martin71 · 15 December 2008 at 4:57PM

It might be worth noting that one of the references on Google Trends is to the comedy double act of Dean MARTIN and Jerry LEWIS! So some of the Google Trends are not what they appear.

Some might say they're even more famous than our beloved MSE- although he's clearly catching up fast.

Now if only he were named Britney Obama, he'd get even more search hits.

martin71 · 15 December 2008 at 5:09PM

Obama must have been running these comparisons last year, and decided to do something about it.

Here is a similar search, confined just to Martin vs Obama, from the UK, for 2007. Martin is clearly in the lead all the way. I reckon Barack got fed up with this and resorted to the slightly undehand tactic of running for President to improve his rank.

Fair enough, his tactic has worked, but some people will do anything to beat the MSE, won't they?!

megsykins · 18 December 2008 at 12:25AM

Oooo ... how to distract me from work (like there's anything to do - it's nearly Xmas and the office is a ghost town!)

Anybody else just searching names of their football team against their rivals? Nottingham Forest are more searched for than Derby County :beer: Also, Take That have been more searched for than Robbie Williams since mid-2006. Now off to see if Google backs up which Aussie states prefer AFL over Rugby and other such pointless things...

'Making Google’s Top Ten. Above Hannah Montana & below Cheryl Cole…' blog discussion

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