50 Words

I tabulated this data today as part of a research project. I've got my own interpretation and uses for this data, but I thought I would share and let you draw your own conclusions, if any. These are the number of returns for 50 selected Google search queries. Some of the relationships are amusing - for example, I like the fact that "podcast" is about to overtake "Viacom", that "iPod" is bigger than "broadband", and closing in on "marriage," and that "MP3" is apparently more widely sought (on the net) than "food."

Internet - 608,000,000
Computer - 373,000,000
TV - 349,000,000
Phone - 297,000,000
Yahoo! - 273,000,000
Water - 253,000,000
Love - 252,000,000
Air - 227,000,000
MP3 - 224,000,000
Food - 214,000,000
Radio - 193,000,000
Microsoft - 186,000,000
Blog - 157,000,000
Google - 146,000,000
Christmas - 139,000,000
God - 132,000,000
Telephone - 101,000,000
Television - 68,500,000
AOL - 61,400,000
BBC - 45,600,000
ABC - 45,000,000
Fox - 41,700,000
Disney - 41,600,000
Marriage - 41,000,000
iPod - 38,100,000
Broadband - 36,600,000
CNN - 23,400,000
Britney - 18,700,000
George Bush - 18,400,000
VoIP - 17,300,000
CBS - 15,900,000
3G - 15,700,000
Wi-Fi - 15,500,000
Jesus Christ - 14,200,000
Michael Jackson - 13,800,000
U2 - 13,800,000
Madonna - 12,100,000
Eminem - 12,000,000
Time Warner - 11,900,000
The Beatles - 11,400,000
Olympics - 11,400,000
P2P - 10,600,000
NBC - 8,470,000
Instant messaging - 6,490,000
BitTorrent - 6,340,000
Bloomberg - 5,750,000
eDonkey - 4,730,000
Skype - 3,530,000
Viacom - 1,120,000
Podcast - 1,070,000