Spinoff: Biggest TV characters according to google search results

Source?

Also, I had to google your top two names to even know who they were.

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Search each name on google and it tells you how many results or matches it finds on the web. You have to use the desktop google website; mobile doesn't tell you the number of results, at least on the mobile browser I was using.

Madmen finale - 3.3 million viewers

Breaking bad finale - 10.3 million viewers

(According to EW)

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Maybe more people searched for them cause they didn't know WTF they were

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It's not number of searches, it's number of places on the web that are brought up when you search for the character.

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By this logic, Omar little is 6x more known/memorable than tony soprano

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Maybe he is?

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For his portrayal of Omar, Michael K. Williams was named by USA Today as one of ten reasons they still love television. The character was praised for his uniqueness in the stale landscape of TV crime dramas and for the wit and humor that Williams brought to the portrayal.[12] Other commentators applauded the many dimensions of the character with his appearances in various story lines as "...a sawed-off shotgun toting terror, a vulnerable jailbird whose life lies in the balance, and a double crossing mastermind who outsmarts Baltimore's biggest drug dealers time and time again."[6] Omar was named as one of the first season's richest characters, not unlike the Robin Hood of Baltimore's west side projects, although his contradictory nature was questioned as a little too strange.[13] The Baltimore City Paper named the character one of their top ten reasons not to cancel the show and called him "arguably the show's single greatest achievement."[14] Little appeared in Comcast's list of TV's Most Intriguing Characters, with the website stating that "no character is more enigmatic and shocking than Omar".[15]

Williams has stated that he feels that the character is well liked because of his honesty, lack of materialism, individuality and his adherence to his strict code.[5] In January 2008 then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told the Las Vegas Sun that Omar was his favorite character on The Wire (which, in turn, is his favorite television show), adding, "That's not an endorsement. He's not my favorite person, but he's a fascinating character."[16]

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Gotta ask -- was proving one character has more Google hits than another really important enough to rate a thread? Why did it matter that much to you?

Of course, I didn't watch either show but knew who both of them were. I might have caught Draper quicker than White simply because Don Draper is a more distinctive and memorable name than Walter White. All these characters are going to be well-known by simple cultural osmosis (it did take me a second to place Omar Little and Frank Underwood, but only a second. TV characters make headlines in this country.)

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Gotta ask -- was proving one character has more Google hits than another really important enough to rate a thread? Why did it matter that much to you?

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There seems to be a common misconception on this board that Mad Men/Draper aren't as "big" as they are (see the quotes in OP), and I thought this was an interesting metric to look at to test those opinions.

Edit: Thread must have been anchored by a Walter White fanboy.