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Top 6: Popular Athletes According to Google
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This is a list of the most popular athletes according to Google.com web search results. The popularity of the athletes below was calculated by simply entering “athlete name” into Google.com and ranking the search results.
Tiger Woods
10 400 000 web results according to Google.com
754 000 image results according to Google.com
Salary: $100 million (2006)
Golf
Age: 31
Country Of Birth: United States
Country Of Residence: United States
Tiger Woods is the most popular athlete according Google.com web results because of his illustrious professional golfing career, Nike clothing and apparel, endorsement deals and many other factors.
Tiger Woods whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements
Tiger Woods’ unbelievable chip shot on the 16th hole at the Masters in 2005:
David Beckham
3 020 000 web results according to Google.com
595 000 image results according to Google.com
Salary: $32.5 mil (2007)
Soccer - Midfield, LA Galaxy
Age: 31
Country Of Birth: Great Britain
Country Of Residence: United States
Galaxy is paying Beckham $32.5 million over five years. He is expected to make about $200 million more in endorsements and merchandise fees.
Here is a collection of David Beckham highlights:
Maria Sharapova
2 440 000web results according to Google.com
125 000 image results according to Google.com
Salary: $25 million (2006)
Tennis
Age: 20
Country Of Birth: Russia
Country Of Residence: United States
As of 10 September 2007, she is the fourth-ranked female player in the world. At the end of 2006, she was the world’s highest-paid female athlete.
In 2006 Sharapova signed a lifetime endorsment deal with Prince Sports, Inc., a longtime sponsor of Sharapova. She currently plays with the O3 White racquet.
Here is a hot video of Maria Sharapova both on and off the tennis court:
OJ Simpson
2 410 000 web results according to Google.com
81 400 image results according to Google.com
Football - Running back, retired
Age: 60
Country Of Birth: United States
Country Of Residence: United States
Well OJ Simpson’s high amount of web results is due to a combination of his NFL career, his murder acquittal and his latest legal troubles.
Here is a compilation of video clips that sums up OJ Simpson in the past 40 years:
Anna Kournikova
2 260 000 web results according to Google.com
46 800 image results according to Google.com
Salary: $12 million (2006)
Tennis - Tennis Player, retired
Age: 26
Country Of Birth: Russia
Country Of Residence: United States
Anna Kournikova is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a singles tournament, she became one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google.
Here is a slide show of Anna Kournikova both on and off the court:
Michael Jordan
2,210,000 web results according to Google.com
286 000 image results according to Google.com
Salary: $32 million (2006)
Basketball - Shooting Guard, retired
Age: 44
Country Of Birth: United States
Country Of Residence: United States
MJ’s endorsements have been pared down to a handful, including Gatorade, Sara Lee and Upper Deck. The bulk of his income, though, still comes from the Swoosh. Nike’s Jordan brand is a $500 million business (sales) and finished the year with record profits and sales.
Jordan’s individual accolades and accomplishments include five NBA MVP (Most Valuable Player) awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances and three All-Star MVPs, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
Here is a collection of highlights from Michael Jordan
26 comments
Michael Schumacher should be on this list.
Posted by Bruce Haverson, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:12 am. #.
Humm, how about cristiano ronaldo??
Posted by Bu, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:16 am. #.
What, no Ana Ivonovic? I find that hard to believe. She has to be moving up on the list.
Posted by ThaMan, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:24 am. #.
if more people made websites devoted to those people, and then google listed them in results, then they would be on the list. maybe you guys should make websites. a start is a start.
Posted by David, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:35 am. #.
Where is 7 TIME TOUR de FRANCE WINNER LANCE ARMSTRONG!?!?!?!?!? If he is not the Ultimate Athlete, I don’t know who is…
Posted by Charles D. Walton, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:37 am. #.
If you are going to include old athletes, you should consider Pel
Posted by Foo, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:42 am. #.
Pel
Posted by Foo, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:54 am. #.
Diego Maradona, 2.440.000 web results (just like Sharapova) but 131.000 image results (6.000 more than Maria)… He should be third
Pel
If Fernando Alonso was a nicer chap, he would probably be there. If Lewis Hamilton wasn
Posted by richard decker, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:00 pm. #.
Lance Armstrong lmao !!! He’s not an athlete he rides a bike just like my sister.
Posted by Deviant, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:04 pm. #.
If you think someone is missing, then do more Google searches for them; that’s where the info came from. It’s not like this was someone’s subjective opinion.
Posted by CF, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:05 pm. #.
What about Tendulkar?
Posted by Lund Bahadur, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:09 pm. #.
Anna won many tournaments and was ranked #1….. In doubles.. which is an integral part of Tennis.
Posted by billy, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:11 pm. #.
Umm Fedor Emelianenko, anyone?
Posted by DrHuxstable, on October 11th, 2007, at 12:43 pm. #.
Mr. Deviant.
Are you seriously that stupid, or did you just pull off the best joke of the century?
Saying that bikers ain’t athletes - Perhaps you should try keeping up with a man that won one of the hardest bike-races there is, 7 times in a row.
After surviving cancer, that is.
If you (or your sister, seeing as she bikes) can honestly beat that man (On a bike), I’d gladly bike all around the US.
Hell, I’d probably bike all around the US anyway. Just for the fun of it.
Oh yea, one last thing, may I ask how much you weigh? What, >100 kg? Thought so.
Posted by TehB, on October 11th, 2007, at 1:41 pm. #.
No Michael Schumacher ? that man gets more hits on web than MJ
Web Searches : 3,020,000
Images : 374,000
And I know for sure he made more money than most of these atheletes. If I remember correctly, he made 50 mil a year every year he was with Ferrari and few more mils from his endorsements…..
Posted by Subrato, on October 11th, 2007, at 2:02 pm. #.
ummm…Michael Schumacher??? should NOT be on this list because the list is named popular athletes…not popular guys that sit in a machine that does most of the work for them!!!!!
Posted by micheal crapmacher, on October 11th, 2007, at 4:30 pm. #.
free oj!
Posted by free oj, on October 11th, 2007, at 4:52 pm. #.
Very fitting that Tiger is number one by a large margin. He’s the ultimate sportsman, a legend.
Posted by Bill Bong, on October 11th, 2007, at 5:34 pm. #.
quote: ummm
Posted by Bill Bong, on October 11th, 2007, at 5:36 pm. #.
Chinese runner Liu Xiang:
about 24,600,000 Chinese (Simplified) pages for “??”
Basketball star Yao Ming:
about 45,600,000 Chinese (Simplified) pages for “??”
Posted by Joseph, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:35 pm. #.
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Posted by fistonista » Blog Archive » 6 atlet paling populer menurut google, on October 12th, 2007, at 3:29 am. #.
F1 is a sport, and F1 drivers are athletes. Being able to concentrate, control your mind and body, and drive at 200-300++ km/h for over an hour is enough to test one’s physical and mental skills. Taking up to 6 g of force while turning, accelerating, and braking precisely is what it takes to win a race, like all the other pressures you have to endure in other sports.
Yes, cars get you up to those speeds, turn for you, brake for you. But they are just like your golf clubs, bikes, even basketball and soccer shoes - other people spend millions researching ways to help an athlete run/pedal faster, jump higher, hit the ball harder and more accurately. They are just one of the tools you use to play the game. It’s how you use it that makes you great.
Posted by Sports fan, on October 12th, 2007, at 3:36 am. #.
I wonder if some of them didn’t take steroids or any other drug to be better
Posted by Alex Roji, on October 12th, 2007, at 6:22 am. #.
Some idiot thinks racing drivers are not athletics …. You should get out of your moms basement and try to see the world … may be you would realize that driving your tricycle and a race is different ……
Posted by Subrato, on October 15th, 2007, at 11:15 am. #.
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OJ was framed.
Posted by Pope Benedict, on October 11th, 2007, at 11:09 am. #.