Keep in mind that the final ranking is based on raw data (Google hits, Twitter followers, etc), not how much we like these folks.
Like Bieber, her Google hits are through the roof and rising.
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It can do that, it says, because the pieces they produce are not ephemeral news stories but evergreen how-to articles that will continue to rack up Google hits as long as they hang around.
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To determine which comedians raked in the most money over the 12-month span, we turned to the 2007 edition of Forbes' Most Powerful Celebrity list, which ranks actors, athletes, models and comedians based on their media exposure (magazine covers as well as TV and radio mentions), Web presence (number of Google hits) and earnings.
Google gets that many hits in about 10 minutes.
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Crowdsourcing, unhitched from human or editorial intervention, becomes the search engine-based object of our affections, and it's no surprise that Google takes more than a few hits from Lanier's pen.
As for the companies losing the most employees, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, eBay and Google seemed to be taking the hardest hits.
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The project is part of a broader trend: Innovative consumer hits, like the iPhone, Google Earth, Second Life, and the Wii remotes and accessories, are increasingly put to unexpected -- and often unauthorized -- uses by outside researchers and tinkerers.
Google has made a habit of making these announcements each time it hits a major milestone with apps.
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If you didn't get an e-mail, a Google search for "opiates but no prescription" produces over a million hits for sites, many of them offshore, offering controlled substances delivered to your door in a plain wrapper.
These days it takes Google just half a second to report that it gets 6.8 million hits for the single phrase liberal media (though you're best off taking the exact figure a bit cautiously).
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Now, Google has decided that anyone hosting a map that gets more than 25, 000 hits in a day has to pay a fairly steep fee.
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A. I put in a Google search for 'flat rate state pension' and got more than one million hits, not all of them saying the same thing, so I do understand your confusion.
Google the words ''investing in uranium'' and you'll see a flood of hits, newsletters and advice.
Intel, already working with Google on tablets, may get some further help in that department from Windows 8, once the new OS hits the market later this year.
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