bigger than Elvis

A measure of popularity, apparently invented by Jorn Barger. Basically one uses a search engine to count the number of pages one's name appears on in relation to the number of pages Elvis appears on. (Elvis was apparently chosen for not being a religious figure and being relatively timeless.)

Right now, Elvis appears 441,810 times on AltaVista.

I appear 3,720 times. So I'm .84% of Elvis. (This is not very accurate though, because "muke" apparently means something in Croatian.)

For comparison, some other major figures:

Religious figures

• God: 4,240,130 pages. 9 times bigger than Elvis.
• Jesus: 2,788,235 pages. 6 times bigger than Elvis.
• Buddha: 250,960 pages. 56% of Elvis.
• Allah: 233,965 pages. 53% of Elvis.
• Zeus: 203,925 pages. 46% of Elvis.
• Eris: 14,237 pages. 3% of Elvis.

Political figures

• Bill Clinton: 411,659 pages. 93% of Elvis.
• Al Gore: 174,467 pages. 39% of Elvis.
• Monica Lewinsky: 107,539 pages. 24% of Elvis.
• George W. Bush: 87,259 pages. 20% of Elvis.
• Hillary Clinton: 65,281 pages. 14% of Elvis.
• Ross Perot: 35,382 pages. 8% of Elvis.

Technological figures

• Bill Gates: 348,911 pages. 78% of Elvis.
• Linus Torvalds: 90,476 pages. 20% of Elvis.
• Steve Jobs: 58,155 pages. 13% of Elvis.
• Richard Stallman: 28,544 pages. 6% of Elvis.
• Steve Case: 19,752 pages. 4% of Elvis.

If you try hard, maybe someday you can be bigger than Elvis.

According to this method I am 4.7 times as popular as Elvis which is pretty close to Jesus.

there is a flaw in this logic but a very small one actually... Since my name can easily be found in most household dictionaries and in many common sentences, my popularity is artificially inflated.

oh well