[WikiEN-l] What google likes

[Jimmy Wales]

As you can see, 'what google likes' is dominated by lists.  I
wondered if people who were finding 'Famous French People' were
finding what they wanted, which would be good, or just stumbling
on the page while looking for something specific, which is not
necessarily as good.  I'll print the results of that inquiry after
this list:

  1150  [[Famous French People]]
   418  [[Mercury (element)]]
   402  [[Famous Spanish people]]
   372  [[Famous African-Americans]]
   368  [[Science fiction themes]]
   312  [[Recent celebrity deaths]]
   304  [[Biographical Listing]]
   268  [[World War II]]
   252  [[The Station nightclub fire]]
   230  [[Fred Rogers]]
   199  [[Leet]]
   198  [[Napoleonic Code]]
   171  [[U.S. Supreme Court]]
   161  [[George W. Bush]]
   155  [[Body piercing]]
   145  [[Native American]]
   145  [[English Civil War]]
   138  [[Elizabethan era]]
   130  [[Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act]]
   129  [[President of the United States]]
   125  [[Old school rap]]
   122  [[Prince Albert piercing]]
   119  [[Natural logarithm]]
   116  [[Discovery of the chemical elements]]
   112  [[U.S. presidential election, 1844]]
   111  [[List of United States Supreme Court cases]]
   109  [[Timeline of inventions]]
   109  [[Mark Antony]]
   109  [[1960s]]
   106  [[United States]]
   105  [[Protest song]]
   103  [[Nuclear weapon]]
   102  [[List of Greek mythological characters]]
    99  [[Mount Vesuvius]]
    98  [[Steamboat Willie]]
    97  [[Incest]]
    92  [[Nudism]]
    92  [[Definition of music]]
    91  [[Evolutionary timeline]]
    91  [[Egyptian language]]
    91  [[Cancer (constellation)]]
    89  [[Famous gay lesbian or bisexual people]]
    89  [[Battle of New Orleans]]
    88  [[Famous Swedish people]]
    88  [[Donald Rumsfeld]]
    87  [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack]]
    87  [[Roman Empire]]
    87  [[Famous women in history]]
    85  [[Terrorist incidents]]
    84  [[Big O notation]]
    82  [[World capital cities]]
    82  [[U.S. plan to invade Iraq]]
    80  [[Nudity]]
    78  [[Torture]]
    77  [[List of famous Italians]]
    77  [[Battle of Marston Moor]]
    77  [[Backus-Naur form]]
    74  [[Prime number]]
    74  [[List of places in London, England]]
    73  [[Medieval siege weaponry]]
    72  [[Maria Theresa of Austria]]
    70  [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
    70  [[Photographer]]
    70  [[Capital punishment]]
    69  [[United States Army]]
    69  [[Anti-globalization movement]]
    68  [[List of French monarchs]]
    68  [[Deity]]
    68  [[Aircraft carrier]]
    67  [[Wikipedia:Public domain resources]]
    67  [[Vulva]]
    67  [[Greek mythology]]


Printing just the most common Google URLS, we find:

     10 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french"
     10 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+&btnG=Google+Search"
     10 "http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+%2B+french+"
     11 "http://www.google.com/search?q=famous+french+people&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"
     11 "http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+people&btnG=Google+Search&meta="
     12 "http://www.google.com.au/search?q=french+people&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"
     12 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=famous+french+people"
     13 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=famous+french+people&btnG=Google+Search"
     18 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+speaking+people&btnG=Google+Search"
     20 "http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=famous+french+people&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&meta="
     21 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=cs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Famous+french+sportsmen&lr="
     22 "http://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+french+people&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta="
     22 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=french+people"
     24 "http://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+french+people&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta="
     26 "http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=famous+french+people&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta="
     27 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+people&btnG=Google+Search"
     27 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=french+people"
     38 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+people"
     39 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Famous+French+People"
     45 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=famous+french+people"
     47 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=french+people"
     68 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=famous+french+people"

I think it's fairly clear that (a) lots of people want to know about
"famous French people" and (b) when they get to our page, they are
going to get exactly what they want.

So for *this list*, anyway, it's seems unquestionably a good thing
that we have it.