Saturday, January 30, 2010

Skewed.

by desmayoralgo (entry #10)

http://xkcd.com/369/

When this image was made, there were two search results for the term "died in a blogging accident." After which, at one time, it was the sixth most-searched term on Google. And re-blogging that and re-blogging some more? It skewed Google's trend tracker -- there are now more than 1,250,000 search results for the term.

It's mind-blowing really. Something so obscure, when re-blogged. That's propagation for you. I wonder how many search results the iPad generates. Wait, let me check. Here you go (as of 12:44pm, 31 January 2010): 16,800,000.

1 comment:

Owen Ricalde said...

check out googlefight.com
although five years ago na ito, this makes you "fight" two keywords e.g. my name and your name, and it would see the google results and see who wins with the most hits :)