Radar’s latest Fame-O-Meter results show Steve Jobs climbing ever higher in online popularity, challenging Bill Gates’ top held spot. With last weeks WWDC iPhone 3G announcement and Microsoft getting ditched by Yahoo, it is not so hard to see why.
“The Fame-O-Meter, according to the magazine’s website, is an “absurdly scientific real-time” measure of the “notoriety and cultural relevance” of public figures based on the number of times they appear in news publications, newswires, blogs and other sources combined with data from such aggregators as Google, Technorati and Yahoo.” via Fortune.
According to the magazine’s “buzz index,” Steve Jobs has already passed Gates by in the daily index, with 83 million hits over Gates’ 70 million. “With last week’s announcement of the new iPhone, more gadget geeks than ever have been clicking for Steve Jobs,” writes Hailey Eber, who runs the meter. “Adding to Jobs’ online intrigue is concern over his health.” via Radar.
He is also steadily climbing in overall popularity sitting well ahead of News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch and Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Why Rupert Murdoch is even on the list may be the biggest surprise of all.
