Sparkline > Steve Jobs > Andy Warhol in Google results

Sparkline appearances in Google results

A few years ago I made prankish comparisons of Google results for sparkline (a statistical graphic) with Andy Warhol (an artist). Andy Warhol and sparkline ran about even.

Now, below are the Google results from searches today 2011 July 11, 2:10pm EDT:

Number of Google search results:

Sparkline       74,300,000

Steve Jobs    74,000,000

Andy Warhol  25,900,000

From their beginning around 1996, I wanted sparklines to be open source and in the public domain. My benefit and great joy is to see sparklines widely used.

The Andy Warhol surge was partly facilitated by Google’s introduction of sparklines into their API data products in 2007.

And the recent surge was largely produced by the 2009 introduction of sparklines into Microsoft’s Excel 2010. I am grateful for that.

Sparklines also now appear in Mac Excel 2011: