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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 06:24:36
August 05 2011 03:58 GMT
#1
Something/one of interest in Google terms?

First, some clarification. If I am giving a range, it usually means there is a bit of uncertainty regarding the specificity of searches - i.e., is this search REALLY trying to find the person we are looking at. In these cases, the lower bound is pretty certainly verified and accounted for, the upper bound tries to cover any side avenues of "income" as well as any uncertain searches, and the average if given is the amount I believe to most accurately represent the search volume after taking into account uncertain searches and other side avenues.

Idra? 246,000 global searches/month

HuK? Hard to say, his name is kind of generic. But, judging by trust rank and various similar search phrases... lower bound of 100-200k range (similar searches, i.e. not "HuK" but say "HuK games", that definitely refer to our lovely protoss make up ~100k alone), upper bound... 1.2 million lol.

Nestea? Almost certainly under 10k/month - Likely to be in the 3k-5k range, if even 5k.

oGsMC? 15-25k/month range.

DeMusliM? ~5.5k, about Nestea range if not slightly higher.

Let's go for a more well known European. I dunno though, who would be appropriate? Ah, let's try WhiteRa.

He gets... ~25k, maybe a bit more, but most likely not significantly more.

Jinro? 45-50k, again, maybe a bit more, but most likely not significantly more.

The one that trumps them all....teamliquid. Over 700k/month.

These were done really quickly btw, so don't expect it to be SUPER scientific. Call it Top Gear science - totally unscientific but informative.

Any suggestions for more data? I can look whatever up real quick.


edit - For reference, porn gets searched about 1.7 billion times per month. And Lebrom James about 5-6 million times.

Take it how you will, but our unscientific survey says Idra and HuK are the ambassadors of SC2.

edit2 - MORE METRICS!

On August 05 2011 13:01 Gamegene wrote:
BoxeR, QXC and TLO.


BoxeR looks to be at about 30k/month, maybe a bit more.
QXC about 15k
Um.... fuck TLO is difficult. Minimum 50k, range is way too fucking wide lol, but almost certainly below 100k.

On August 05 2011 13:51 Haegr9599 wrote:
be interested to see the numbers behind: Day9, Destiny, Fruitdealer, Flash, and Jaedong


Day9, as mentioned above, is in the 1.0-1.8 million range, most likely at ~1.4million/month.

Destiny is obviously going to be a bit unclear on the range due to his generic name, but I estimate about he is within the 65k-100k range, wherein 65k is an established lower bound. Assuming more generic searches that somehow end up working, I doubt he passes the 100k ceiling.

Fruitdealer - 16k-25k range. Like in the case of the Destiny, I highly doubt that upper bound is approached.

Note that Flash and Jaedong probably get the majority of their searches in Korea, which predominantly uses Naver, not Google, so take these numbers with a grain of salt and look for a distant mountain.

Flash - 20k-25k
Jaedong - Same range as flash, 20-25k

On August 05 2011 14:46 Gamegene wrote:
Lindsey Sporrer, Mr. Chae, HDStarcraft, HuskyStarcraft, TotalBiscuit, Tasteless, Artosis, (Tastosis too please), Mr. Bitter

Let's get some of the nonplayers out of the way.


Lindsey Sporrer - 260
Mr. Chae - 140
HDStarcraft - 60-80k, possiblility of another 100-150k but can't really tell if the search is for him or generic HD stuff. Could be even some more, but again, his name makes specificity hard ><
HuskyStarcraft - 330-400k
TotalBiscuit - 50k-170k, not really sure whether certain searches are specifically for him or not.
Tasteless - Well, depending on how you interpret the legitimacy of the search term "Tasteless", could be as low as 8k or as high as around 70k.
Artosis - 60-70k
Tastosis - 1300
Mr. Bitter - 5-8k

edit - On further inspection, TotalBiscuit has gained another 27k searches. Now he's in the 77k-197k range, but like all the other youtube/blip/etc channel uploaders, the search number is likely an understatement and/or incomplete image of popularity. Evidence - TotalBiscuit has 417,653 Youtube subscribers.

On August 05 2011 15:04 Ciryandor wrote:
Ok let's do it BW Style!

Bisu
YellOw
sAviOr
Julyzerg
NaDa
Kim Carrier

and for kicks: Bonjwa


Bisu - man why did he have to pick a "common" name - as in it actually translates. Well, depending on whether people are actually searching for bisu (which they probably or) or are searching for daggers, range from 20k-100k, perhaps some more if the former is true.

YellOw - Common names... fuck my life. He is almost certainly probably below 20k, probably below 10k, possibly below 5k.

sAviOr - sigh... less than 5k.

Julyzerg - 10k-35k, but most likely in the ~15k area.

NaDa - 7k-12k

Kim Carrier - 390

On August 05 2011 15:16 Gamegene wrote:
How about some non common names?

Jaedong Fantasy iloveoov

also: do you have a lot of free time on your hands o.O? Very interesting numbers.


Jaedong I did earlier. Think he was 20k-25k.

Fantasy is... btw I really really hate these commons names, but, probably below 2k

iloveoov - 3.5-5k range.

To answer your second question, I'm just bored.

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Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
August 05 2011 04:01 GMT
#2
BoxeR, QXC and TLO.
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 04:05 GMT
#3
On August 05 2011 13:01 Gamegene wrote:
BoxeR, QXC and TLO.


BoxeR looks to be at about 30k/month, maybe a bit more.
QXC about 15k
Um.... fuck TLO is difficult. Minimum 50k, range is way too fucking wide lol, but almost certainly below 100k.
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
August 05 2011 04:19 GMT
#4
Tortellini? ;D
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 04:21 GMT
#5
On August 05 2011 13:19 Torte de Lini wrote:
Tortellini? ;D


Nearly 370,000/month you are damn popular oh wait.

But "Torte de Lini" gets 6.8k too o.O
StutteR
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1903 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 04:37:49
August 05 2011 04:37 GMT
#6
jinro is an alcoholic drink in Korea so results are skewed. This applies to Nestea as well. Except not alcoholic :D
`~` | effOrt Movie sKyHigh forever & SEn
snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 04:43:52
August 05 2011 04:43 GMT
#7
On August 05 2011 13:37 StutteR wrote:
jinro is an alcoholic drink in Korea so results are skewed. This applies to Nestea as well. Except not alcoholic :D


Koreans don't search in English though ,)
(And don't use google)
@riotsnowbird
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 04:43 GMT
#8
On August 05 2011 13:37 StutteR wrote:
jinro is an alcoholic drink in Korea so results are skewed. This applies to Nestea as well. Except not alcoholic :D


Dealt with that fact in factoring in searches obviously.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 04:44 GMT
#9
On August 05 2011 13:43 snowbird wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2011 13:37 StutteR wrote:
jinro is an alcoholic drink in Korea so results are skewed. This applies to Nestea as well. Except not alcoholic :D


Koreans don't search in English though ,)
(And don't use google)


I could check Naver and all those other search engines too, but then to be really unscientific I'd have to be super selective and ... eh not worth the effort.
Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 04:46:47
August 05 2011 04:44 GMT
#10
How popular is tl? I probably type that in at least three times a day haha.
Don't include tl acura though.

Edit: Chocolate too please ^^
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
August 05 2011 04:45 GMT
#11
On August 05 2011 13:21 EtherealDeath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2011 13:19 Torte de Lini wrote:
Tortellini? ;D


Nearly 370,000/month you are damn popular oh wait.

But "Torte de Lini" gets 6.8k too o.O


Multiple communities ;D
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
diarsenic
Profile Joined July 2011
United States385 Posts
August 05 2011 04:45 GMT
#12
Day9?
Penix Imba
Haegr9599
Profile Joined April 2011
United States210 Posts
August 05 2011 04:51 GMT
#13
be interested to see the numbers behind: Day9, Destiny, Fruitdealer, Flash, and Jaedong
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 04:53:37
August 05 2011 04:52 GMT
#14
On August 05 2011 13:45 diarsenic wrote:
Day9?


Almost certainly in the range 1.0-1.8 million. Most likely around ~1.4 million.

edit - Holy shit Day9 is like... 1/4 as popular as Lebron by our Unscientific StarGoogling©

On August 05 2011 13:44 Chocolate wrote:
How popular is tl? I probably type that in at least three times a day haha.
Don't include tl acura though.

Edit: Chocolate too please ^^


Difficult to say. "tl" has 6.12 million/month, but judging by relevant composite searches, they are almost certainly overwhelmingly directed towards the Acura. That is to say, if they didn't like the result they got, they probably searched for teamliquid next. There are no significant (read: ~20k composite results compared to ~700k for teamliquid type stuff) sources that I can for certain say are refined searches for teamliquid.net which use "tl" in them. So, the teamliquid-type search results probably cover most everyone who is googling for teamliquid.
infinitestory
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4053 Posts
August 05 2011 04:54 GMT
#15
I think this would be more representative if we counted, say, Baidu and Naver as well. I looked at those NesTea numbers and felt "there's no way that's right"
Translator:3
Dingobloo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia1903 Posts
August 05 2011 04:58 GMT
#16
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Idra, Day9, Team Liquid&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

This might be useful to someone, though even Idra has something mucking it up.
Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-05 04:59:51
August 05 2011 04:59 GMT
#17
On August 05 2011 13:58 Dingobloo wrote:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Idra, Day9, Team Liquid&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

This might be useful to someone, though even Idra has something mucking it up.

judging from those results idra must mean something in italian right?
Edit: It means hydra
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 04:59 GMT
#18
On August 05 2011 13:51 Haegr9599 wrote:
be interested to see the numbers behind: Day9, Destiny, Fruitdealer, Flash, and Jaedong


Day9, as mentioned above, is in the 1.0-1.8 million range, most likely at ~1.4million/month.

Destiny is obviously going to be a bit unclear on the range due to his generic name, but I estimate about he is within the 65k-100k range, wherein 65k is an established lower bound. Assuming more generic searches that somehow end up working, I doubt he passes the 100k ceiling.

Fruitdealer - 16k-25k range. Like in the case of the Destiny, I highly doubt that upper bound is approached.

Note that Flash and Jaedong probably get the majority of their searches in Korea, which predominantly uses Naver, not Google, so take these numbers with a grain of salt and look for a distant mountain.

Flash - 20k-25k
Jaedong - Same range as flash, 20-25k
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 05:00 GMT
#19
On August 05 2011 13:54 infinitestory wrote:
I think this would be more representative if we counted, say, Baidu and Naver as well. I looked at those NesTea numbers and felt "there's no way that's right"


Yea, this is Google only atm. I suppose I could look into Baidu and Naver too... at some point in the near future. Being in bed makes me so lazy ~_~
Meapak_Ziphh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States6786 Posts
August 05 2011 05:04 GMT
#20
That Day9 number is a lot bigger than I ever thought it would be.
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