He may not be a pop star or the president of the world’s most powerful nation but Toronto’s embattled mayor was certainly Googled like he is in the month of May.
In the wake of reported allegations he was seen on a drug video, Rob Ford searches on Google have surpassed some of the most popular figures in the world.
The trend was first highlighted in a post by Warren Weeks.
On May 17, the day after Gawker and the Toronto Star reported on the alleged video featuring the mayor of Canada’s biggest city, Ford got more Google searches than Barack Obama and Lady Gaga combined – that’s worldwide.
Our Google Trends graph, which plots Google search terms based on search performance, shows the search term fluctuating in popularity from Jennifer Lawrence to Jay-Z levels ever since.
Before the scandal, the mayor was about as popular on Google as Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
