I was thinking this morning about a statistic that I once heard. It stated that the probability of Texas coming up in any given conversation was above 50%. I don’t know if this is actually true, but I think it has some truthiness to it.
This made me wonder about the popularity of the individual 50 states in Google’s index, so I did some quick checking. Here are the top 5 states, with their result count:
| California | 2,750,000,000 |
| New York | 2,450,000,000 |
| Texas | 1,340,000,000 |
| Massachusetts | 1,170,000,000 |
| Washington | 1,030,000,000 |
Nothing too astonishing there. Texas is a distant 3rd, after New York. Washington made the top 5. I excluded results with “D.C.” and “DC” , but it may be that Washington is still benefitting significantly from our first President and the many things honoring his name.
Here are the bottom 5:
| Wyoming | 316,000,000 |
| Vermont | 294,000,000 |
| West Virginia | 286,000,000 |
| North Dakota | 278,000,000 |
| South Dakota | 254,000,000 |
Sorry, South Dakota. You got your hide tanned by states with much smaller populations.
I was a little surprised that Virginia ranks 29th (several steps behind even Hawaii and Alaska), given that it’s the “.com capital of the world”, right? ;-)