Spelling names wrong gets lots of hits. Witness jamie lynn speers, britney speers
Last week, I accidentally spelled NYTimes book critic Michiko Kakutani’s name as “Michiko Kukutani” and became the second-highest ranked search on Google for that particular misspelling of her name.
As a result, I am interested to see what happens when I misspell Britney Speers and Jamie Lynn Speers.
This is an old strategy, but let’s see how it does. Just as an experiment. I don’t really want too many fake hits, as I’m not sure how much interest AmericanMadness will hold for people who are searching for Britney Spears and her sister.
However, we ARE called American Madness (not American Saneness) and I can think of few trends less sane in popular American culture that the popularity of Britney Spears. There are 81 million web pages devoted to her name on Google.
By contrast, Warren Buffet is referenced in only 826,000 pages. Amazing.
