Huh. John Lennon was right. (However, if you leave off the “Christ”, Jesus wins handily…)
Everything is more popular than The Straight Dope as far as I can tell on trends…
Nah,the Straight Dope is much more popular than Camelopardalis.
We lost to Godfather , but can anyone think of a reason for the spike in 2006?
It’s actually late 2005, and as near as I can make out, that’s when the Godfather video game came out.
No, it’s 2006. The vertical gridlines separate years. As you can see if you change the scale just to show 2006: http://www.google.com/trends?q=“Straight+Dope”%2C+“godfather”&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2006&sort=0
March 2006.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=lawnmowers%2C+alarm+clocks&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Interesting… Alarm clocks briefly overtake lawnmowers in popularity shortly before Christmas each year 