Gregory House vs. Lisa Cuddy vs. Temperance Brennan vs. Seeley Booth

Today, I compare the main characters of the popular TV shows House M.D. and Bones. First, we look at the regular Google web search:

In short, Dr. House rules but Dr. Cuddy has clearly been gaining on him. Then comes Dr. Brennan closely followed by Agent Booth, both steadily increasing in search volume but distinctively behind the two front runners—just like the shows themselves, I guess. Google Insights for Search also provides us with country-specific breakouts and rankings:

While the House M.D. characters are most popular in Mexico, the Bones ones are in the US. Overall, House M.D. is more an international phenomenon than Bones. I take it this must be due to the latter not being broadcast in so many countries. Bones characters' regional interest is odd: hardly any European countries make into the top 10 but, for instance, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Yemen, etc. do.

Canada vs. Mexico

Let's have a look at the US neighbors:


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of mexico in all years.
canada 2.22
mexico 1.00

Canada is more popular than Mexico in Google searches. Both are declining but Canada does so much faster than Mexico. However, looking at their occurrence in Google news, both are increasing and Canada does so again faster than Mexico. The two parts of the Google Trends graph seem contradictory... I guess you could say that the countries are receiving more coverage in the news so that not as many people need to look them up? Hmm, you could just as easily expect that more news coverage would lead to more interest hence more searches. I'm not sure about this one. Any thoughts?