X-Message-Number: 22787
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:35:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: how famous is your name? Part II

It was a another rainy day. So I rechecked how many Google hits I could
get with some people's names. This time I added quotation marks around
people's names, as sagely suggested by Brian Wowk. Ah, how fleeting fame
is! The number of hits for the cryonics activists all declined
substantially, while the truly famous retained their lofty ranking. Sorry
Ben, looks like you're not more famous than Elvis after all,though you
still retain your #1 ranking among cryonicists.

(Note: The anomalous results with Marilyn Monroe mean I must have
misspelled her name originally.)

                    HITS     Elvis score   "HITS"  "Elvis score"
Robert Ettinger    28,000      0.03        5,830      0.007
Saul Kent          68,400      0.08        3,470      0.004
Marilyn Monroe    161,000      0.18    1,480,000      1.65
Mike Darwin       225,000      0.25        5,130      0.006
Thomas Donaldson  278,000      0.31       11,800      0.013
Princess Diana    444,000      0.50      221,000      0.25
Elvis Presley     886,000      1         895,000      1
Tom Cruise      1,980,000      2.23    1,700,000      1.90
Britney Spears  2,670,000      3.01    2,770,000      3.09
Ben Best        4,790,000      5.41       13,100      0.014
George Bush     6,890,000      7.78    1,750,000      1.96

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