google search results

lol those times are the database lookup times.

Good analysis polkoi. Rebecca just isn't interesting enough to talk about, except how poor she is at singing.

More meaningless stats.

Stick to abusing forum members polkoi ;)

I think polkoi's humour threads are much better.

Oh, wait a minute

I would abuse you fll but cant find a ramp big enough to reach

I will do further analasys tomorrow

see if there are some trends

I will send you the results first by PM george 

Then post it here for all the kids to fawn over me and tell me how clever I am

no probs othh [;)]

Trends?

Now you're speaking polkoi.

Can you put me on your mailing list too?

Trends are the new stats

No

Wonder how many results Diane Vickers would have generated?

Actually I'm not cynical re this and welcome any new stats angle especially those that pick up on trends/momentum.

diana vickers x factor
About 417,000 results (0.21 seconds)



she would have beaten rebecca

I'll trump your Vickers with a Gillian McKeith

About 798,000 results (0.08 seconds)

Can anyone beat Take That?

About 1,430,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)

LOU MACARIS TARTAN B  About 1,735,875 results(0.15 seconds)


        Five leaves left      About 37 results (0.02 seconds)



I'll raise you

They're bigger than Elvis and The Beatles oombined

Elvis - About 20,100,000 results (0.06 seconds)

Beatles - About 90,900,000 results (0.06 seconds)

I'm only 60,000 off rebecca

Tits are more popular than fanny

Tits - About 62,900,000 results (0.07 seconds)

Fanny - About 19,400,000 results (0.06 seconds)

Can you all stop ruining my thread

tia

Bum more popular than fanny

Bum - About 22,800,000 results (0.06 seconds)

Joe Mc eldery

About 7,520,000 results (0.06 seconds)


Proves it works obviously

one direction x factor About 6,880,000 results (0.14 seconds) Ok 5 young boys and and lots of photo's and comments about them as individuals will also contribute to their research results

Matt cardle x factor About 2,790,000 results (0.07 seconds) Remember that every mention of Matt Cardle on a forum will return as one result so Lou is actually responsible for half that total

cher lloyd x factor About 997,000 results (0.11 seconds) Actually thought she would be higher with all the initial fuss about her

katie waissel x factor About 1,420,000 results (0.08 seconds) Courted all the controversy and loads of newspaper and forum mentions so you expect a lot of mentions.

mary byrne x factor About 211,000 results (0.20 seconds) Marys fans mostly wont be on the net creating a cyber trail of search results

Rebecca fergusson x factor About 342,000 results (0.07 seconds) You would have thought she would be higher but apart from mary and 1d then she has created no negative media.


Worth noting that half of these hits or maybe even more will be negative stuff for some of the contestants.

Gawd, you and your sense of humour HF [;)]

figgy's twiiter stats - About 57,700 results (0.14 seconds)

polkoi's google stats - 5 results (0.30 seconds)

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http://georgebrush.com/

Thats not our GeorgeBrush, that one has a job! [;)]

He's well positioned to sue me

jo brand nude - About 144,000 results (0.11 seconds)

caroline flack nude - About 15,200 results (0.11 seconds)

I cant believe you actually googled figgy's twiiter stats

I have gone up to 8

momentum is all with me and momentum is all important, as you well know

I shall retire to bed and leave figgy to ponder where it all went wrong 

You could get Lou as your defence attourney, how could you lose?

I'd never know I was beaten, that's for sure

LOL

You'd be working for the defence and prosecution GB

bearded clam 75,200
clunge 66,300
clout 7,250,000
minge 3,363,000
hairy chalice 55,100

not looking good for hairy chalice

He'd be paying his entire earnings for the rest of his life Figgy!

Blart safe for another week I think

727,000

wet your lettuce About - 176,000 results (0.16 seconds)

tuna canoe - About 306,000 results (0.21 seconds)

arse gravy - About 1,040,000 results (0.16 seconds)

pooh pipe - About 1,100,000 results (0.18 seconds)


This is fun

Flange p1ssing up

14,900,000 results (0.20 seconds)

Funnily enough, although I don't want to enter into a personal argument, I don't think that what Polkoi has posted are irrelevant
The problem with people who use stats/trends/polls is that they tend to ignore the ones that don't fit their argument and promote the ones that do. The simple fact is that nobody is doubting Rebecca's vocal ability, but a few of us question whether she has star quality/the X-Factor. I'm green on the girl, but compared to One Direction and Matt she just isn't cutting the mustard in terms of Google searches (I can't be bothered to see if Polkoi's figures are genuine - but am assuming they are). As for the 'negative publicity' argument, I'm not really sure that apart from Katie & Cher there has been that much negitive publicity about OD or Matt.
In short, unless someone can tell me why Google searches aren't relevant, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of doubt.

LG,

matt  cardle coke head
matt cardle photo with spliff in mouth
matt cardle dumps girlfriend on orders
matt cardle tries to get off with backing dancer having got back with afore mentioned girlfiend
Matt Cardle slags off peoples champ Wagner

And there have been more, may not have a grandma whose a a prostitute but there has been a steady drip drip drip of negative 'smaller' stories.

How many google hits would the Burke have had?  Fook all frankly

I remember people saying how poorly Joe was rating on these measures last year too LG

Good morning HF & GB
The points you make are both taken and well made.
I really have no axe to grind here and my point is a more general one. If Rebecca had received 6.5 million more Google searches than OD then I suspect her backers on here would have been trumpeting the fact on the forum and it would have been used as evidence of her widespread popularity. However, because the situation is anything but it seems that many forumites are doing what we all do when we are presented with evidence that is discordant with our 'world view' namely, disclaiming the relevance of of that evidence.
It's called cognitive dissonance.
Don't get me wrong, Rebecca might hose up and she might be Simon's chosen one, but if I were a Rebecca backer (and I repeat I have her as a green) then I hope I would try to do what HF (to be fair) has sought to do and explain Rebecca's lack of Google searches rather than dissing the 'research'.

Best Regards

laughing

That's what I've always said.  See a poll/ search, story where someone looks good and it gets mentioned however when it's a negative it's cough cough let's sweep that under the carpet type thing. It's called "cognitive dissonance" apparently.  You're far more cleverer than me laughing!

Merely suggesting that these things are particularly useless LG.

I have no particular Rebecca axe to grind, Matt is my biggest green

Polkoi you need to be more discriminating, "one" and "direction" are common words in English.

one direction x factor      6,960,000 results

"one direction" x factor    1,640,000 results

Rebecca

About 57,100,000 results (0.07 seconds)

[;)]

LG,

Also think you are being slightly unfair to figgy as well. 

His twitter stats at no real point have suggested that Rebecca will win and yet he pushes them forward every week.

We all have our favourites and we all have our books and not everyone will have their favourite as their biggest green.  As an example Wagner is easily my biggest green and even then I don't want him to win! [smiley:crazy]

Matt

About 136,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)

[>o]

HF
Please don't think I am knocking Five Leaves' Twitter stats. They have been brilliant and I'm sure are more relevant than this Google search stuff. However, my basic point still stands. Namely, despite the heroic attempts to justify why Rebecca has 6.5 million less Google searches than One Direction it is an alrming difference and makes me question whether she is 'the word on the streets' and the act people are talking about.
Best Wishes

LG,

I understand your point and you are one person on here I always listen to!

Rebecca has 6.5 million less Google searches

Completely wrong. Read my post.

Very good point Henry

Where are these heroic attempts LG?   All I see is a thread full of mild p1sstaking

Same here...and polkoi is no shrinking violet so well up to fighting his corner.

As for stats, they didn't surprise me at all.
It's only telling us who are the most newsworthy atm.

Slagging fellow contestants and  judges off, or jumping into bed with them, or crying every week and acting like a drama queen, etc, etc, is what makes headlines and Rebecca does none of that.

I'm surprised she's even above Mary on the bare stats, as Mary has had quite a few dramas herself.

The ones that did surprise me were 1D. They don't create alot of drama either.
I guess with teenage girls having insatiable appetites for the latest heartthrobs 'stories' pop up to fill their constant demand for the latest tittle tattle.
Though it seems from Henry that the initial figure was actually wrong and it looks nearer what I'd have expected now.

My thread has been hijacked


No problem  though, i only done it because i was bored. 


Henry ,i take your point on the one direction point, ta.

If there is something to take from these figures it is the suprisingly high figure of Matts

Of course he has had a few stories in the press about this and that, but no where near the amount as Cher or Katie.
rebeccas is dismally low and shows that she is just not news worthy.