[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

[geni]

On 2/24/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Lih wrote:
> > > Results 1 - 10 of about 161,000 for "brian peppers". (0.05 seconds)
> > >
> > > Results 1 - 10 of about 154,000 for "Stan Shebs". (0.03 seconds)
> > >
> > > Let's cut the ridiculousness of this Google testing track.
> >
> > "jimmy wales" - 36,500,000
> > "elvis presley" - 14,400,000
> >
> > it's pretty silly
>
> Interesting. I get
>
> 40,300,000 for "Jimmy Wales"
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Jimmy+Wales%22&btnG=Search
>
> and
> 42,700,000 for "Jesus Christ"
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Jesus+Christ%22&btnG=Search
>
> -- mav
>
> PS - IIRC, the same search a month ago had over 50,000,000 hits for "Jimmy Wales" and about
> 43,000,000 for "Jesus Christ". So you ain't more popular than Jesus anymore. :)

Those figures were messed with by jimbo haveing his name at the top of
every single wikipedia page.

--
geni