By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Can Google search result counts be an indicator of what interests people in this world? Just went to Google’s home page, searched the following terms, and received the following search result counts:

google — about 2,170,000,000 results
microsoft — about 738,000,000 results
sex — about 713,000,000 results
god — about 485,000,000 results
jesus — about 181, 000, 000 results
celebrity — about 171,000,000 results
britney — about 133,000,000results
clinton — about 128,000,000 results
islam — about 123,000,000 results
obama — about 85,300,000 results
christianity — about 51,400,000 results
mccain — about 41,200,000 results
buddha — about 28,400,000 results
muhammad — about 25,200,000 results
mormon — about 12,100,000 results
scientology — about 10,800,000 results