Sant and Gonzi Google Update
Following on the Wired Temples post of last week which was featured on the Malta Independent on Sunday, Opposition leader Alfred Sant is still ahead of Prime Minister Laurence Gonzi in the Google stakes. In the Maltese media, reflecting a status-conscious society, the two political leaders are usually affectionately known as Dr Sant and Dr Gonzi. So WT did a new search which resulted in 2,020 returns for "Dr Gonzi" and 11,000 for "Dr Sant". A Google search without quotation marks came up with 8, 380 hits for Dr Gonzi and an amazing 556,000 hits for Dr Sant.
Laurence Gonzi who according to his official Government profile "spent most of his childhood years in the Circolo Gioventu’ Cattolica, playing football and being a diligent pupil at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Rabat" requires more than prayer to turn the Google tables on Alfred Sant.
posted by Robert Micallef at 1/05/2005 04:58:00 PM
Robert, this is quite an interesting waste of time you've gotten yourself into here! It's quite obvious that you're not taking into consideration two important facts: (a) Lawrence rather than Laurence is the prefered spelling for Gonzi's first name, and (b) many of the google listings for Dr Sant refer to me rather than Alfred Sant.
Agreed. This Google contest is not to be taken seriously at all. Just having some fun courtesy of Google -some readers had told me this blog is too serious!! Sant was elected party leader at least 11 years before Gonzi so internet search results are bound to be uneven. For a final contest (no risk of your name getting mixed up in this one Ton!)
"Fredu Sant" : 202
"In-neputi ta' l-arcisqof Gonzi" : 2
Quoderat Demonstrandum! :)
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