Remember the article on Sociology: Popularity of a Person or Country I posted about 8 years ago (specifically on December 23, 2012) on whether a Google image search for a name yields a country or a person? Well, I did it again with the same word "Leone" and the results show the skew in interest in popular perspective. Unfortunately, the country Sierra Leone is not even in the picture (pun intended) for the initial hits.
Here's what's seen:
The statistics of the number of pictures in the first 21 shown here in the Google search related to a particular person, thing, country or entity is as follows:
Sunny Leone 16
Sierra Leone 2
Leone (from Akame ga Kill!) 1
Miriam Leone 1
Max Leone 1
Eight years ago, Sierra Leone led with 7 hits followed by Sunny Leone with 5 hits. I doubt that Sierra Leone became less popular; rather, with the explosive growth of popularity of Sunny Leone in India, a search for Leone inevitably reveals this Indian-Canadian actress and model.
Next up is doing a search for each of these five hits and seeing the number of results for now compared to 8 years ago. As can be seen, Sierra Leone still comes out on top with the number of results but Sunny Leone is cutting close.
| Name | 2020 (now) | 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunny Leone | 308,000,000 | 57,400,000 |
| Sierra Leone | 580,000,000 | 380,000,000 |
| Miriam Leone | 12,900,000 | 0 |
Sunny Leone has increased in search results by over 5 times whereas Sierra Leone only increased by 1.5 times. Miriam Leone was not even on the list back in 2012. How can a country increase in its search results by 5 times? That seems highly unlikely unless it's a large nation such as India or China. It would have been interesting to see how many results those would yield.
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