Who Cares About The Royal Wedding? (STATS, TRENDS)

According to a number of polls, the vast majority of Americans care little about the Royal Wedding.

A poll by the New York Times/CBS News found that only 6 percent of Americans have been following news about the wedding very closely, with an additional 22 percent following it somewhat closely. There is a margin of error of plus-minus 3 percentage points for that poll. Likewise, 85 percent of more than 15,000 respondents to a HuffPost Facebook poll said they don't care about the royal wedding.

But Google searches suggest otherwise. In fact, "royal wedding" queries in the United States have surged past God, Barack Obama and Justin Bieber in recent days (scroll down for graphs), per Google Trends.

How do searches for royal wedding stack up against other big searches the last few weeks? Scroll down to see.

For those who aren't interested in the royal wedding in the United States, it's understandable, says HuffPost blogger Kelli Goff, who argues 21st century Americans don't care about royalty the way they used to.

But that hasn't stopped media coverage and social media activity from surging as the wedding nears. And a huge pickup in Google activity, seen below.

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[floridaray]

01:14 PM on 05/04/2011

I care nothing about the monarchy.......if it were not for Diana's genes the royal family would look like the queen. Kate will do well to get better looking royals

[Channa]

02:10 PM on 04/29/2011

More slavery, torture and wholesale theft of resources occurred under the aegis of the British Crown than any other era of history.

My roots are in Concord Mass. and I have relatives that fought for this country to be rid of the monarchy. The British monarchy is the antithesis of what America stands for.

"The Royals" are just humans like you or me. Except they are hyper wealthy and over privileged. It's a good con if you can pull it off. The richest people in the country are having the wedding on taxpayer money while the country is in financial crisis.

I wish the couple well, but this is beyond farce when Americans gape and swoon over this spectacle.

[Rainam]

05:16 PM on 04/29/2011

The tax payers paid? Now that is a load of bull, I they are happy with all of the money they spent on their 'wedding' at the expense of the taxpayers.

[Channa]

05:32 PM on 04/29/2011

$35 million just for the security. British tax payers foot the bill for all of this foolishness whether they are happy about it or not. Apparently some people (aka "the poor") are not all that happy about this royal waste.

[joeyfoto]

10:45 AM on 04/29/2011

At least these irrelevant socialites have put on a parade and a spectacle to deliver pomp & ceremony for colour coverage; what has that other irrelevant socialite, Donald Trump, done for quality entertainment?

[beninabox1]

11:08 AM on 04/29/2011

Faved! (already fanned). Trump did one good thing and that was funding the Wollman rink in Central Park NYC. Other than that he's a waste of space and oxygen.

[joeyfoto]

12:54 PM on 04/29/2011

Thanks for reminding me about Wollman rink. Walking downtown from the Metropolitan, I made a series of photographs there, of people skating in the snow.

Thank you, "The Donald." Now go away.

[Said One]

06:10 AM on 04/29/2011

Just to add that Google is not the only Search Engine.
Yahoo has 50 cent trending as the top search so far for the day.

Lycos has youtube and poker trending as its most popular searches.

Ask.com has What's arbor day trending above any questions about the royal wedding.

Metasearch engine Mamma.com has the tornado trending as its top search.

Dogpile another metasearch engine has the tornado trending as its top search

[French Toast]

08:15 AM on 04/29/2011

Christ almighty, can you cry about the wedding any more than you are doing right now?

[Said One]

05:55 AM on 04/29/2011

Also Yahoo currently has 50 cent as its top trending search - Google is not the only search engine

[Said One]

05:54 AM on 04/29/2011

Firstly the Windsor PR team has been overactive in ensuring people have NO choice but to watch the wedding since many stations are devoting entire weeks worth of coverage to it - the cricket world cup got over 2 billion viewers while giving people a CHOICE.

As many people have remarked on this wedding - there was no choice the Windsor PR team bought tons of coverage from a couple of media outlets.

Also not all the attention translates into GOOD attention - alot of people are watching this spectacle tallying the costs of it and will be using it to make the Republic a reality, once William returns from vacation and the UK taxpayer has felt the full blow of the 6.5 billion loss to the economy.

[xanxia]

05:40 AM on 04/29/2011

I am more interested in the people that were invited than the couple getting married.

[StephenJK]

02:12 AM on 04/29/2011

I care. BUt, I couldn't care any less.

[vohshka]

01:05 AM on 04/29/2011

People are curious because the Brits are making such a big deal about it - but honestly who cares - lets face it if they weren't royals they are just another bland "nice" couple. If Kate Middleton had boobs that might be a different story.

[Dasher011]

12:53 AM on 04/29/2011

I wonder how the royal wedding search volume would compare to, oh, I dunno... 'boobs.' I don't know why anybody outside of G.B. would care. It's not like Prince William is marrying anybody all that interesting. A commoner! Ooooooh, scandalous.

[llisa]

11:28 PM on 04/28/2011

80 % of Brits don't even care.

[Marchant2]

09:02 PM on 04/28/2011

If I change the channel the instant I see either of their faces, does that mean I'm not interested?

[CashCrop101]

08:52 PM on 04/28/2011

Obama

Brown

Blair

The three socialist B's blackballed.

This royal family may not be so bad after all. ;D

[Zork4]

07:41 AM on 04/29/2011

If you knew what a Socialist was, I'd be more inclined to listen. Maybe Brown in his youth. Blair and Obama aren't Socialists in any sense.

[Ellis Badon]

08:11 PM on 04/28/2011

Geeez! You present us with reasons no medium should be covering this idiotic soiree which includes parasitic drones on Brits everywhere, yet you display two other stories and a photo essay of the near-criminal behavior of social egomaniacs. Please, find something else to do.

[omega777]

07:43 PM on 04/28/2011

Another reason to make England a state

[captcct]

08:36 PM on 04/28/2011

What? like the one the size of Texas floating off the West Coast!? Are you suggesting that the USA actually gets a Royal family. Did you not have the ludicrous Camelot crowd from up in the Hamptons earlier? Come on. Leave the Brits alone to their demise. Do something responsible and respectable here. F the rest of the planet.