Friday, September 11, 2009

Are celebrities bigger than God?

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I stumbled across this news headline on stuff -

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/2851918/Are-celebrities-bigger-than-religion

Unfortunately Firefox decided not to load the page so I didn't get to read it - which gave me a chance to ponder this on the way to work, and decided to find out how religion compared to celebrities in terms of online search volumes - the highest worldwide celebrity searches for the past 12 months were:

Britney Spears, Megan Fox (didn't she come out of nowhere!), Kim Kardashian and Angelina Jolie. So I decided to see how they all stacked up against searches for God - after all, he's kind of a celeb in his own right.

The results are obvious - God consistently maintained a high search volume throughout the past twelve months. And the country that has the highest index for searches? Eritrea, a country that is 50% Muslim and 48% Christian*.



*Sources: Google Insights for Search, Wikipedia



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