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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22787