Lady Gaga holds more sway in our society than Barack Obama does, at least according to the frequency that their respective names show up under some basic Google searches.

To demonstrate the bizarre randomness of people's curiosity all you have to do is to begin to type something, anything, in a Google search box. You will then amuse yourself and others for hours with Google's suggested completions to your query.

As you type something into the Google search box you are presented with a drop-down list of the most popular queries that match your entry or partial entry.  

How Google Suggest works (according to Google).

As you type, Google Suggest returns search queries based on other users' search activities. These searches are algorithmically determined based on a number of purely objective factors (including popularity of search terms) without human intervention. All of the queries shown in Suggest have been typed previously by other Google users. The Suggest dataset is updated frequently to offer fresh and rising search queries. In addition, if you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, you'll see search queries from relevant searches that you've done in the past.

Most questions start with who, what, where, when, why, or how so I began my queries with those words. 

When I typed "who is," the top ten suggested answers were:

Justin Bieber?  

Lady Gaga? 

John Galt? 

Justin Bieber dating?

my Congressman?

God?

the Stig? 

my celebrity look alike?

ip? 

the cutest?  

What is...

lupus?

my ip address?

love?

the longest word in the English language?

Lady Gaga's real name? 

a good credit score? 

Cinco De Mayo

a short sale?

gluten?

chatroulette?

Where is...

my refund?

Chuck Norris?

the love lyrics?

my mind lyrics?

Grayson Chance from?  

the Geico gecko from?

the love?

your appendix?

Sandra Bullock?  

Santa right now?

When will...

I die?

Verizon get the iPhone?

the white iPhone be available?

the world end?

I get my tax refund?

I get married?

I start to show during pregnancy?

Mt. Rainier erupt?

the iPhone be available for Verizon?

iPad 3G ship?

Why is...

a raven like a writing desk?

my poop green?

the sky blue?

yawning contagious?

the world going to end in 2012?

Lil' Wayne going to jail?

420 National Pot Day?

it called Good Friday?

Lil' Wayne in jail?

Lala shutting down?

How does...

Craigslist make money?

Mystery Google work?

Twitter work?

Paypal work?

a bill become a law?

Stephen Hawking talk?

Skype work?

Google make money?

birth control work?

Facebook make money?

What an odd mixture of possible answers.

Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga edge out John Galt and God.  That's a relief.

Information on lupus and love is more popular than gluten and chatroulette.  (That actually is a relief).

The "where is" category didn't yield a single interesting result.  I wonder if people are trying to figure out exactly where Sandra Bullock is at any given time during the day (combing her hair in the downstairs powder room) or a more general answer (in California making a movie).  Geez, people expect Google to know everything.  (By the way, she's feeding Jesse James' still-attached balls to a ravenous wolverine, as we speak).

"When will I die" and "when will the world end" did manage to beat out the shipping information for both the iPhone and the iPad.  Steve Jobs can't be very happy about that outcome.

I'm at a loss for words on the "why is" category although with more and more people fascinated with green poop and Lil Wayne's legal status, I'm not surprised that they made the list.  (I admit that I did have to do a seperate Google search to figure out who the hell Lil Wayne is.  He owes $1.1 million in back taxes).

Finally, and thankfully, in the "how does" group, we had a list of ten reasonable intelligent questions.

How does Stephen Hawking talk?  How does Skype work?  How does Facebook make money?  Not bad questions.  Not bad at all.  I would have asked how Justin Bieber plans on making a living in two years but then again I might also ask that about Mr. Obama.

I couldn't resist one final category.

How does Barack Obama... (only three choices appeared)

inspire people?

contribute to society?

More people care about the "half-Windsor" versus the "shell knot" than they do about the President's leadership qualities and contributions to the country?

I think that President Obama ties his tie in such a way that regardless of which direction he's facing, the knot always points toward Mecca.

But what do I know?  I thought that God was more popular than Lady Gaga.