In an effort to launch to the top of the charts, we have tried to copy or serve an homage to those captains of industry in the internet world. We will continue to work with our crack programming team to get real time search stats on but until then, we’ll just report the highlights we find through our searching or from Mr. If you are a Houdini fan, it needs to be your first stop daily for the latest findings and exploration about this incredible legend. Houdini is what got us heavily into magic and we assume his popularity is having the same effect on a new generation of magicians and escape artists.īy the way, if we are ever in doubt about Houdini’s work or history, we refer to the source that knows all, Wild About Houdini, run by John Cox. Yet, we are at a loss to name any of them unless they later had a career in a more permanent medium like film or radio. In the 1920s the American and European theaters were jammed full of performers and on a typical evening’s bill, there would be a star or top act. We tried to think of other performers that have that kind of staying power. The modern audiences have never seen Houdini (other than the Tony Curtis film, perhaps) but the reference still resonates with them. Magicians today still make reference to Houdini in their acts often comparing themselves to the master performer. What a testament to his self-promotion, his place in modern history and his ability to entrance modern audiences even without being present (assuming you disregard claims of connections during seances). It is amazing that his name, story and images still register on the Google Search metrics. But usually there is at least one hit for Houdini, the world-famous magician and escape artist par excellence. Sometimes it comes back with the great Houdini Magic Shop from Disneyland or Las Vegas. Sometimes it comes back with a wine bottle opener. Sometimes the searches come back related to a rapper that used Houdini in his name. Second, because we search for news or articles about Houdini daily. We’re always looking to spice up our space. Why were we trying to construct this real-time search presentation?įirst because we thought it was a cool tool to put on our website. So while we don’t have the live data stream for Houdini searches on yet, we can report that the term Houdini continues to be searched daily with peaks in the number of searches on special days and weeks around Halloween and the date of his death in 1926. We couldn’t go back further like to 1920 and figured out that we were limited by the reality that Google did not exist in the Roaring Twenties. We also take great pride in our programming abilities and yet we were stumped yesterday trying to load an active graph from Google documenting the past and present searches for Houdini since 2010. We love the world’s best known magician, Houdini.
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