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What Google can tell us about the iPhone

January 12, 2007—Short of having Barack Obama personally unveil the iPhone on the red carpet of the Oscars, Apple couldn't have possibly attracted more media coverage for its latest gadget release. So do people like it? There was only one real way to find out: creative Googling. We typed in "iPhone" plus a few carefully selected search terms to see which combinations pulled up the most hits.

iPhone + "amazing": 950,000
iPhone + "hype": 522,000
iPhone + "disappointing": 95,100
iPhone + "breathtaking": 27,600
iPhone + "overrated": 26,900
iPhone + "better than sex": 281
iPhone + "bigger than Jesus": 117