Dan Brown Gets US Googling
Here’s a just for fun post that also shines a light on what we can learn from Google Insights. In Dan Brown’s latest book The Lost Symbol Robert Langdon tells Director Inoue Sato to Google George Washington Zeus. It turns out that Sato is not the only one who googled the term check out this graph from Google Insights.
The day before the books release, September 14, 2009 there’s no search volume for the term. The day of the books release more than a few folks had already reached page 87 and followed Langdon’s instructions.
The sculpture of Washington posing as Zeus isn’t the only search term Brown gave a major boost to. Here’s a graph of the term noetic science which is the field of science practiced by Brown’s female protagonist.