Just because, I ran a few comparative trend searches on Google Trends again. For example:
Google Trends: water, fire, air, earth
Turns out people are searching the most for air, then water, then fire, then finally earth. Water is hogging a lot of the news coverage, while sturdy old earth gets almost no print.
For you Red Hot Chili Pepper fans who’ve been wondering, sex is way more popular than blood, sugar, or magik.
Video poker gets more searches than Megabucks, but is never in the news. For some reason, Croatian is the top language for “video poker.” Maybe Google needs to work a few kinks out of this?
Heaven is consistently the more popular search term, but hell is in the news more. Similar for God and the Devil.
Life is more popular than death, both in search and news volume.
Finally, goodbye is slightly more newsworthy, but more people want to say hello.
Having plumbed the depths of metaphysics from my desktop, I’ll quit while I’m ahead.