Most talked-about skaters on the Internet?

[Mathman]

If you do a Google search on famous names in figure skating, how many references come up? (Remember to put the name in quotation marks, so you don’t pick up other random stuff.)

“Mao Asada” 111,000
“Miki Ando” 109,000
“Yu-na Kim” 104,000
“Caroline Zhang” 27,400
“Kimmie Meissner” 18,600

“Brian Joubert” 184,000
“Johnny Weir” 150,000
“Evan Lysacek” 87,100
“Daisuke Takahashi” 66,900
“Stephane Lambiel” 20,800

“Sasha Cohen” 344,000
“Nancy Kerrigan” 259,000
“Dorothy Hamill” 201,000
“Oksana Baiul” 118,000
“Kristi Yamaguchi” 116,000

“Scott Hamilton” 536,000
“Brian Boitano” 233,000
“Kurt Browning” 75,500
“Alexei Yagudin” 74,100
“Evgeny Plushenko” 28,000 (for Russian skaters there are many other references with alternative spelling, Cyrillic, etc.)

 

[Bennett]

Are they all about the exact individuals or can include ppl with the same names? Also if you put the names in other characters (e.g., Chinese, Korean etc), the result for each skater would dramatically increase (Do you know how to spell Brian Joubert in other languages? )

 

[Mathman]

Well, I only checked the first 300,000 for Scott Hamilton...

It includes any time the two words "scott" and "hamilton" appear right together (hey, the poor little web-bot is doing the best it can, LOL). "Sasha Cohen" probably includes a lot of references to comedian "Sacha Cohen."

 

[mizu_iro]

http://web.search.naver.com/search.naver?where=webkr&sm=tab_jum&query=%uAE40%uC5F0%uC544

Searching Yu-Na's name in Korean on naver.com (Korea's most popular search engine) registers 318,025 hits. If you did the same with a Japanese search engine with Mao or Miki's full names, I'm sure you'd get just as many, if not more.

 

[Mathman]

http://web.search.naver.com/search.naver?where=webkr&sm=tab_jum&query=%uAE40연아

Searching Yu-Na's name in Korean on naver.com (Korea's most popular search engine) registers 318,025 hits.

BTW, The Korean site returned 13,858 hits on Caroline Zhang in English.

 

[attyfan]

"Michelle Kwan" -- 955,000!

Checked about 9 pages (every other page on the first 18) and all the ones I checked were clearly about the skater (i.e., there was a reference to her record, or to the Univ of Denver or trip for State Dept.)

"Tonya Harding" -- 954,000. Didn't check any of them, though

 

[mizu_iro]

Well, here's Mao on Yahoo! Japan. 4,330,000 hits?!

http://search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=浅田+真央&ei=UTF-8&fr=top_ga1&x=wrt

I can't check to see if they're all directly linked to Mao (obviously), but even a tiny fraction of that would be pretty incredible.

 

[Mathman]

2,740,000 for Michelle Kwan in English. Wow, figure skating is HUGE in Japan.

 

[nubka]

Mathman, you must have a lot of spare time on your hands...

 

[Justlooking]

If you do a Google search on famous names in figure skating, how many references come up? (Remember to put the name in quotation marks, so you don’t pick up other random stuff.)

“Mao Asada” 111,000
“Miki Ando” 109,000
“Yu-na Kim” 104,000

Plus you have to put it in the reverse order

asada mao 14,100
ando miki 6090
Kim Yu-Na 53800

then


김연아 855000 (but I don t think everythng about her) or the other time I looked for her (5 minutes after) 1500000
浅田 真央 1080000 ( they are less mao asadas than yu na kims so more is probably her)
安藤美姫 1740000 (it is also more common than mao asada)

and if you add 真央ちゃん maochan you have 440000

 

[Bennett]

安藤美姫 1740000 (it is also more common than mao asada)

I don't think Miki a common name. Hers reads "beautiful princess." Not many parents think of such a name.

 

[Justlooking]

I don't think Miki a common name. Hers reads "beautiful princess." Not many parents think of such a name.

Hmm I didn't think about that....

 

[Tonichelle]

Scott Hamilton is also a professional musician and the spokesman for the Boeing Company.... among others, so a lot of those hits aren't going to be Scotty Hamilton....


did my site come up in your search MM?

 

[Mathman]

Mathman, you must have a lot of spare time on your hands...

Well, I was taking a little break from analyzing the protocols from the Nebelhorn Trophy competitions over the last 15 years.

did my site come up in your search MM?

If you type in "Scott Hamilton" and your last name there are 1910 hits. The first one is "Tonichelle's Insane Journal".

 

[Teenes]

Yeah there are a number of prominent Scott Hamiltons. The Secretary of State of Florida (and former elections commissioner) is named Kurt Browning, though I think there are more results for him in a news.google.com search than in a standard google.com search. Florida elections though - you can bet at least *some* of the results are about him.

A friend of a friend of mine's name is Michelle Kwan. But obviously these skaters generally don't have 100% unique names and most of the *web* presence is still about them...

 

[sillylionlove]

Well, I was taking a little break from analyzing the protocols from the Nebelhorn Trophy competitions over the last 15 years. :l:

That is to funny!!!

 

[Tonichelle]

Well, I was taking a little break from analyzing the protocols from the Nebelhorn Trophy competitions over the last 15 years. If you type in "Scott Hamilton" and your last name there are 1910 hits. The first one is "Tonichelle's Insane Journal".

I was hoping for my "With One More Look" site... but oh well

 

[Mathman]

Ok, here are the top nine Michelles on Google:

Michelle Williams, 4.2 million
Michelle Ryan, 3.7 million
Michelle Malkins, 1.9 (conservative Philippean-American newspaper colmnist -- not sure about the rest)
Michelle Pfeifer, 1.7 million
Michelle Marsh, 1.5 million
Michelle Trachtenberg, 1.3 million
Michelle Kwan, 1.0 million
Michelle McCool, 0.5 million

Tara Lipinski is the 10th most famous Tara (right behind Tara Rum Pum)

Yu-na Kim is the most famous Yu-na. Second most famous is the Yu-na Kim Forum.

Asada Mao is the most famous Asada.

But Mao Asada is listed only seventh behind four different spellings of Mao Tse-tung and behind both "Mao inhibitor" and "Mao inhibitors" (anti-depression drugs).

(If you want ot play this game, set your Google preferences on, "provide query suggestions.")