National BBQ day vs World Quantum Day
Computational Complexity 2024-05-27
After my post on different holiDAYS, here, such as Talk like a Pirate Day, and Raegan Revor day, two other Days were brought to my attention
1) Lance emailed me about National BBQ day, which is May 16. See here
2) While at a Quantum Computing Prelim I saw a poster for World Quantum Day, which is April 14. See here.
The obvious question: Which of these days is better known? I Googled them again but this time note the number of hits.
I found out that Google seems to have removed that feature!
When using Google on both Firefox and Chrome, I did not get number of hits.
Some points about this
1) Is there a way to turn the number-of-hits feature on?
2) Bing DOES give number of hits.
World Quantum Day: 899,000 hits
National BBQ Day: 418,000 hits
To get a baseline I binged Pi Day. This did not reveal the number of hits. An unscientific set of Bing searches seems to indicate that if the number of hits is large then they are not shown.
Is hits-on-Bing a good measure of popularity? I do not know.
3) Duck Duck Go does not give number of hits. This might be part of their privacy policy.
4) I also noticed a while back that You Tube no longer allows DISLIKES, just likes. That may explain why my Muffin Math song on You Tube (see here), with Lance on the Piano, has 0 dislikes. It does not explain why it got 19 likes.
5) Google said that the number-of-hits is really an approximation and one should not take it too seriously.
YouTube said that (not in these words) the haters caused dislikes to be far more than they should be.
On the one hand, I want to know those numbers. On the other hand I think Google and YouTube are right about about the numbers not being that accurate. And more so for Bing which is used less so (I assume) has less data to work from.
6) Back to my question: What is better known National BBQ day or World Quantum Day? The nation and the world may never know.
7) All of the above is speculation.