Google Hates the Charlotte Bobcats

David Sietsma by Correspondent Written on July 10, 2008
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As I was pondering the recent off-season moves in the NBA, I began to make a mental checklist of each team’s transactions. I thought about my favorite teams, the contenders, and the recent newsmakers. Knowing that I hadn’t thought of all thirty teams, I began to wonder which franchises were the most forgettable.

Not having the resources or desire to conduct surveys in which people would be asked to recall NBA teams, I opted for the next best and equally scientific approach of asking the Internet.

I used Google’s search engine (www.google.com) to search for a team’s complete name without quotations (i.e. San Antonio Spurs). Then , I recorded the number of pages that Google said were found for each query.

Keep in mind that this is based on pages in general, not just news.

As of July 11, 2008. Here are the results

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