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Article about Top Bible Searches from Lycos:
June 10, 2002
Today we're going to take a look at a topic that makes the Lycos 50 every single week -- but it's also the oldest topic on our list. What are people looking for when they ask for the Bible online?
The fact that the Bible wasn't in the Lycos 50 at the beginning was probably due to the fact that we were still figuring what to count and how to count it in the first couple weeks. Since very early on, the Bible has been a staple of our list, nearly always appearing between #15 and #30 (it's actually low this week).
Here is a list of the top 20 Bible-related searches, not including specific books of the Bible, for the first three months of 2002. Each search is compared to searches for just the word Bible. For example, Bible study gets about one-fourth as many queries as just Bible.
100.0% Bible 25.3% Bible study 22.4% online Bible 16.1% Bible verses 15.1% The Bible 10.4% Holy Bible 8.0% Bible commentaries 7.1% King James Bible 7.1% Old Testament 6.9% www.Bible.com 5.5% Bible Gateway 5.5% Bible code 5.1% Bible concordance 4.9% Bible software 4.8% Torah 4.6% Bible search 4.6% Bible colleges 3.9% free Bible 3.9% Bible dictionary 3.4% Bible prophecy
Bible Gateway, by the way, is a popular Christian website. The Bible code is a theory that states that God has left encoded predictions of the future that can be read by decoding the letters of the Bible. You may remember the controversial book in 1997. A Bible concordance lists the number of times a word appears in the Bible, and in what books and chapters.
We thought it was interesting that The Bible gets only 15 percent as many searches as just Bible. It's also interesting that the Old Testament gets more than twice as many searches as the New Testament, not even counting searches for Torah.
Other than the King James Bible, the top specific versions of the Bible are NIV Bible, Catholic Bible, and Hebrew Bible. Speaking of things that aren't actually the Bible, the Satanic Bible gets as many searches as the Catholic Bible, and we also get a few searches for Tijuana bibles, slang for pornographic comic books of the 1930s and 1940s.
Four percent of Bible searches are in Spanish, for Biblia.
Here are the top ten most-searched books of the Bible (both Old and New Testaments). Obviously many of these searches are for something else -- Genesis could be the band, Titus is a TV show, and Job is probably a search for jobs -- but it's an interesting list nonetheless.
One book that gets a healthy amount of searches, clearly all Bible-related, is Song of Songs, known to Christians as Song of Solomon. Combine searches for both those terms and Song of Songs becomes the #15 most-searched book of the Bible, just ahead of Peter, Luke, and Jonah.
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