Any phrase that gets over 10,000,000,000.
- www: 25,670,000,000
- a: 20,080,000,000
- the: 17,040,000,000
- and: 14,420,000,000
- i: 10,100,000,000
- yahoo: 2,920,000,000
- google: 2,710,000,000
- english: 2,480,000,000
- sex: 851,000,000
- Washington: 550,000,000 (Cheating: has multiple meanings.)
- Jesus: 260,000,000
- Lincoln: 212,000,000
- Beatles: 88,200,000 (They once said they were more popular than Jesus". Not according to google.)
- God: 677,000,000
- Christian: 507,000,000
- Bible: 183,000,000
- Islam: 147,000,000
- Catholic: 126,000,000
- Smith: 456,000,000
- Jones: 327,000,000
These numbers are just estimates. It would take too long for Google to determine the actual number of results returned by a query.
ReplyDeleteHow accurate are these estimates? No idea.
some other google estimates:
ReplyDelete1: 25,300,000,000
USA: 1,540,000,000
britney: 133,000,000
Madonna: 131,000,000
Bush: 305,000,000
yes: 1,100,000,000
no: 8,300,000,000
"com" has 25,780,000,000 -- more than "www", and "of"is between "the" and "and"; "myspace" and "youtube" are more popular than "sex", the latter crossing 1B.
ReplyDeleteJesus is not on your list of terms relating to religion that have greater then 100,000,000
ReplyDeletejesus has 260,000,000 which is greater then 100,000,000
therefore Jesus isn't a term relating to religion according to Gasarch.
if yahoo and google count as words, blog could be counted, too
ReplyDeleteblog 3,510,000,000
estimated size of google index
ReplyDeletehttp://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
it's estimated to be around 20 billion - I wonder how they can have 25 billion results
Lee gets 436,000,000, and Park gets 984,000,000 -- both far more than Smith or Jones. The large number of Asian WWW users helps here, I think, but also the multiple cultures in which the name is used in the first case and its use as a common noun in the second...
ReplyDeleteAlso, 10,720,000,000 for day. This is fun! (But fun only gets 1,010,000,000...)
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ReplyDeleteit's estimated to be around 20 billion
ReplyDeleteThose numbers are well below actual values. Google has 100 billion pages in its index, out of 1 trillion valid URLs that it has in its database.
continuing the record established by anon #3 ("com" in the "all phrases" category), we now offer... in the "real words" category (excluding articles and prepositions and such):
ReplyDelete"home" has 7,080,000,000 hits, and
"page" has 8,250,000,000 hits.
"data" has 3,570,000,000 - more than yahoo and google
ReplyDeletecomputer scientist / complexity theorist "cook" is more popular than "jesus" -- 300,000,000 hits!
ReplyDeleteCan we subscribe to this blog minus "GASARCH" ?
ReplyDeleteto anon#14:
ReplyDeleteif all you could do after reading an article is to post an insult to this author, we'd rather have this blog minus trolls like you.
consider contributing usefully, or vanish, or start your own blog.
i second #14. #15 is an idiot
ReplyDeleteno offense to B.G. but his posts are quite different in nature than Lance's posts. I am subscribed to this blog b/c i wanna read Lance. Maybe the blog should be split, or at the very least, tagged so that people who want to just read one author can subscribe to the authors feed.
funny but not unexpected
ReplyDelete"www OR Com OR a" gets 25.84G hits. A 30G search would be interesting...
ReplyDeleteA related challenge: Come up with a word shorter than 6 characters that does not produce any results.
ReplyDeleteI think you should also count number of their translations in other languages, otherwise you are just counting words not meanings.
ReplyDeleteSilly web searches aside, I would like to bring attention of all CS folks to the Youtube video lectures posted by the IITs (Indian inst. of techs). They are available here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd
I like both Lance and Bill posts, but in case you do want to subscribe to a "Lance-only" version I created such a feed here:
ReplyDeletehttp://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=aNifV3iJ3RGXPXhLBR50VA&_render=rss
To see how I did it and/or clone it to create your own variant, go here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/oddhead/complexitylance
video: 3,460,000,000
ReplyDeletephoto: 2,480,000,000
image: 2,200,000,000
book: 1,590,000,000