Wikipedia statistics/What Google likes

Week of September 27, 2001 to October 3, 2001, inclusive. Notice that terms somehow associated with the terrorist attacks on the United States still lead the pack.

431 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties

307 HomePage

283 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

152 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Missing Persons

122 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/External news sites

87 CIAWorldFactbook

82 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Personal experiences

74 ARY Digital

63 Recent celebrity deaths

62 Osama Bin Laden

58 Napoleonic Code

54 How to play the violin

52 Discovery of the chemical elements

46 Year in Review

45 Newtons Laws of Motion

43 World War II

41 Famous French People

40 Afghanistan/Military

39 Mercury/Element

39 Definition of philosophy

38 RecentChanges

38 Periodic table

37 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history

35 Vasco Nunez de Balboa

34 Chinese numerals

33 IndianapolisColts

32 Eulers formula in complex analysis

31 World War II/Talk

31 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Closings and Cancellations

31 Occams razor

29 GUI/History

28 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Timeline

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98 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties

42 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

29 HomePage

25 CIAWorldFactbook

18 Napoleonic Code

15 Vasco Nunez de Balboa

15 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Missing Persons

14 RecentChanges

14 Box-cutter knives

12 Roman Empire

12 Afghanistan/Military

11 Year in Review

11 Discovery of the chemical elements

10 Political spectrum

10 Newtons Laws of Motion

10 Chomsky hierarchy

9 World War II

9 Osama Bin Laden

9 Cultural movement

9 Auteur theory

9 ARY Digital

8 World War II/Talk

8 Vector space

8 Transcendental number

8 Mercury/Element

8 Ethical egoism

8 Definition of philosophy

7 Tollund Man

7 Standard temperature and pressure

7 Real number

7 Philosophy

7 Periodic table

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