Just found a new site today: it compares the number of web hits for any two topics. I decided to figure out who is more popular: Harry Potter or the Bible?
The results:
Googlefight: Bible vs. “Harry Potter”
As of today, the Bible edges out Harry Potter, with 22.6 million vs. 18.6 million pages mentioning the word or phrase. With Potter approaching Lord of the Rings numbers of sales (227 million copies sold worldwide now, 11 million of number 6 sold in just the first 3 days of release, vs. Tolkien’s 300 million individual copies (100 million copies of the complete trilogy, roughly)), I wonder who’ll win in the long-term?
Though if you do the math, it means Rowling has averaged some 40-million-ish sales per book. So she’s got a long way to go to 100 million, but by now, she has way more fortune than Tolkien ever amassed in his lifetime… most of his sales were posthumous.
Rowling… You go, girl!
Heh, cool…
You can do lots of other comparisons, too…
That’s fun! Remember, use quotes if you’re using a full name, otherwise the results are really skewed.
Oh, and it looks like Harry Potter has a long way to go before he’s more popular than God…
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Matthew P. Barnson
Potter v. Bible
Yeah, but you’re not exactly being fair. Harry Potter has gained popularity in less than 10 years of publication. The Bible’s been around for nearly 2000 years. Obviously, the people in charge of marketing the Bible have taken their good old time getting the word out.
— Ben
She IS the richest woman in
She IS the richest woman in England, and that’s including the royal family…
Arthur Rowan Brother Katana of Reasoned Discussion Rebel Leader and Dance Instructor for the Unitarian Jihad
Potter
What’s the Bible comparison though? Harry Potter doesn’t compare in any way shape or form with the Bibe and the Harry Potter movies have gotten worse with each release.
Beatles…
Well, at one point, the Beatles were more popular than God.
I figured the giggle-filled little site known as GoogleFight would be a fun place to see something similar, popularity-wise.
In this case, it’s the Bible 4 teh win!
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Matthew P. Barnson
another one
Check out “love” versus “hate”
love: 518,000,000 hate: 95,400,000
Karmic…
I’m sure that has some kind of karmic significance, if I could just figure it out…
Wait, wait, I get it! Folks say that 95% of people are basically good, meaning that only 5% are bad! So if 518 million people love each other, then only 21 million….
Crap, numbers don’t work out. Oh, well.
But hey, on the plus side, Good vs. Evil? Good wins, with over a billion counts, versus “evil” with a paltry 100 million.
Take that, evil-doers!
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Matthew P. Barnson
Well, duh… the *smart*
Well, duh… the *smart* evil do-ers aren’t going to broadcast their nefarious character to the known world… so a lot of those “good” results might just be evil people *claiming* they’re good.
I know what you’re thinking… evil people saying that they’re good? That’s DIABOLICAL. And so full of malicious cunning that a good soul would never even conceive the possibility.
So how did you come by such knowledge, Rowan?
I can say no more than that a long, dark road lies behind me…
Pat Robertson is a loser
Ariel Sharon kicks his butt on Google. Good for him. Even a comatose Sharon is better than Robertson. HA HA