[LINK] Juilan Assange's Google-fame compared to prime ministers & other folk

[Scott Howard]

Apparently the Internet is shrinking...

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Robin Whittle <rw at firstpr.com.au> wrote:

> Here's an update to some of these Google search page counts, 34 hours
> later, after Julian Assange's arrest.
>
> >   33,000,000    "Julian Assange"
>    124,000,000
>

Currently "About 58,500,000"


>   213,000,000    Assange
>

"About 27,100,00"

However "+Assange" is "About 95,800,000", which is strange given that it
should be a subset of "Assange".  By Comparison, "Howard" and "+Howard" both
return an equal "About 124,000,000 results"


Where are all these pages?  That's a huge number.  Only 100k or so are
> on Facebook and Twitter.  Looking at the initial pages, I guess these
> are mainly blog sites, discussion forums and professional news media
> sites.
>

I suspect a large part of it is bogus numbers from Google.

  Scott