After watching a recent Thunderf00t video where he uses Google Trends to chart the popularity of PZ Myers, I decided that I wanted to have a look at few other people with Google Trends
Here is a comparison between Thunderf00t, PZ Myers, The Amazing Atheist, Rebecca Watson, and The Nostalgic Critic as a control.
Here is the results when comparing web search:
As you can see PZ does win out with Rebecca Watson as a close second
Then I compared YouTube search:
And here it is very clear that Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist are well in the lead.
And finally, I compared by image search:
As you can see, there is no contest, it is all Rebecca Watson.
I must admit, that does make me pause for a moment. Other then a tiny blip for The Amazing Atheist (which I think is related to a banana incident) Rebecca Watson is the only person to even have an average higher then zero.
It seems clear that web searchers prefer PZ Myers and Rebecca Watson, YouTube searchers prefer Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist, and by a very large margin, image searchers prefer Rebecca Watson.
I am not sure what conclusion to draw from this
