Steven Johnson, author of the excellent Emergence, suggests a new, totally self-absorbed Google game. Of course I played with it at once. The idea is to use Google to determine “mindshare” of a concept. “Steven Johnson” gets 0.3% mindshare of “emergence”, for example.
Well, I’m happy to report that “Lance” gets 2.5% mindshare of “Davos”. This compares to “Schwab” with 1.1%, “Annan” with 2.4%, “Gates” with 7.1% and “Clinton” with 8.5%. Nicely, “ski” level-pegs with “Clinton” on 8.5%. Incidentally, I think Klaus Schwab‘s personally low Google-based mindshare is a tribute to one aspect of the World Economic Forum: on the public stage it prefers discretion to grandstanding.