Over on the xkcd forums there was a post about the number of google results for the word google with a varying number of “o’s”. Such as:
gggle
goggle
google
gooogle
…
goooooo *125 o’s in total* oooogle
The data yoteango collected is as follows:
O's Search Results
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0 105,000
1 1,500,000
2 2,020,000,000
3 342,000
4 666,000
5 50,400
6 86,500
7 33,600
8 11,300
9 8,940
10 65,400
11 11,100
12 27,300
13 107,000
14 36,000
15 11,900
16 15,000
17 45,700
18 12,100
19 948
20 2,370
21 860
22 728
23 3,030
24 8,940
25 5,990
26 2,350
27 972
28 432
29 307
30 344
31 1,970
32 1,890
33 1,530
34 1,310
35 1,470
36 11,200
37 2,140
38 187
39 1,810
40 1,070
41 1,030
52 1,010
53 1,300
44 954
45 1,210
46 963
47 786
48 666
49 1,190
50 597
51 95
52 482
53 6,140
54 677
55 453
56 785
57 711
58 466
59 3,530
60 373
61 111
62 109
63 118
64 176
65 192
66 90
67 52
68 89
69 72
70 92
71 51
72 444
73 43
74 40
75 50
76 35
77 41
78 46
79 103
80 41
81 34
82 37
83 56
84 53
85 55
86 87
87 52
88 25
89 31
90 26
91 29
92 95
93 42
94 144
95 30
96 47
97 26
98 49
99 7
100 38
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 3
105 5
106 6
107 29
108 55
109 7
110 9
111 5
112 4
113 25
114 4
115 25
116 4
117 10
118 75
119 9
120 5
121 3
122 10
123 65
124 123
Two o’s is google, so you would expect that to have the most search results. The bump at 59 is also reasonable and can be explained by the registration of the associated .com. In particular, a .com domain name can have up to 63 characters in it, and due to Google’s popularity
gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
is of course registered, since it’s the most o’s you can use. A while back, someone put a fake website up there and listed it on stumble upon, so it has a lot of links pointed towards it, giving it many more search results.
The 13 o’s was also a registered domain name for some google project, hence the bump at that number. The other bumps, I’m not too sure about.
Best example of this was a comic (not xkcd) after the death of Ricardo Montalban. Someone did a chart of # of Google hits for Kh(a)n, for 1 to 100 “a”s.