X-Message-Number: 22789 From: "Harvey Newstrom" <> Subject: RE: how famous is your name? Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:36:16 -0500 In Message #22782, dated Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:19:56 -0800 (PST), Doug Skreck <> wrote, > It was a rainy day. So I checked how many Google hits I could > get with some people's names. Here are a few surprising results: Sorry, but these numbers are wrong. I have duplicated your numbers by typing these names into Google without quotes. (Except for Marylyn Monroe, which I assume was a typo.) Unfortunately, this returns all pages containing the first name and the second name, but not necessarily together in the same name. This exaggeration gets even worse when the names are also English words such as "bush" or "best". If you put quotes around the full name to make it search for the phrase as a whole, you get much lower numbers. HITS HITS without with quotes quotes Robert Ettinger 28,000 5,820 Saul Kent 68,400 3,460 Marilyn Monroe 161,000 1,880,000 Mike Darwin 225,000 5,120 Thomas Donaldson 278,000 11,700 Princess Diana 444,000 220,000 Elvis Presley 886,000 883,000 Tom Cruise 1,980,000 1,880,000 Britney Spears 2,670,000 2,890,000 Ben Best 4,790,000 12,800 George Bush 6,890,000 1,750,000 -- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC Certified IS Security Pro, Certified IS Auditor, Certified InfoSec Manager, NSA Certified Assessor, IBM Certified Consultant, SANS Certified GIAC <HarveyNewstrom.com> <Newstaff.com> Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22789