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NEWS: Naruto Makes Yahoo's Top-10 Search Terms List at #7




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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:06 am Reply with quote
Barack Obama was #3 as well. I think we can thank Adult Swim and the Narutard foundation for getting one of our own favorites of the medium into the mainstream exposure.
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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:32 am Reply with quote
fighterholic wrote:
Barack Obama was #3 as well. I think we can thank Adult Swim and the Narutard foundation for getting one of our own favorites of the medium into the mainstream exposure.
Naruto has nothing to do with Adult Swim, it was on Toonami's timeslot...I don't know if it first aired on toonami or just on CN in general but it was never on AS, but was on Toonami
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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:37 am Reply with quote
Then let me rephrase that, Naruto is on the channel containing Cartoon Network, and people watch that Naruto on that channel. The end.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:03 am Reply with quote
Wonder what percentage of those searches were followed by the word "subs." Razz
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melonbread



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:36 am Reply with quote
So from this news we can establish two things:

  • Naruto seems to be less popular than last year.
  • None of this actually matters since anyone who is anyone uses Google.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:04 am Reply with quote
melonbread wrote:
So from this news we can establish two things:

  • Naruto seems to be less popular than last year.
  • None of this actually matters since anyone who is anyone uses Google.


Except the Japanese who seem to prefer Yahoo. Laughing
(Maybe because they can pronounce it better?)
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Xxipodipodxx



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:14 am Reply with quote
YAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
WOOT WOOT!!!! NARUTO RULEZ!!!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:33 am Reply with quote
melonbread wrote:
None of this actually matters since anyone who is anyone uses Google.


That was my first thought as well.
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Brack



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:59 pm Reply with quote
Putting "Naruto" into Google Trends is even more enlightening. Compared to more widely reported on media releases like "Dark Knight" and "High School Musical" it rates much higher and seems to be ever growing in popularity (though searches for "ナルト" are decreasing).
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:39 pm Reply with quote
Brack wrote:
Putting "Naruto" into Google Trends is even more enlightening.

That Google Trends thing is very interesting. Since 2007, more searches have been made for 'Naruto' than for 'anime'.

It also appears that ANN's popularity beats that of many other anime-related websites, but is in turn trumped by Crunchyroll.
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Xanas



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:21 pm Reply with quote
Top Gun wrote:
Wonder what percentage of those searches were followed by the word "subs." Razz


Looking at google trends (not yahoo but still same principle) when I add sub or fansub to the search term the comparison to naruto itself is negligible, so it would seem the percentage is quite low. I tried naruto torrent as well, and it worked out to be slightly higher than "fansub" or "sub" but still negligible compared to the term by itself.

Of course, one doesn't need to type "sub" or "torrent" to be looking for them, but I usually do if I'm looking for something like that myself.
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