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Gov. Bill Richardson's presidential campaign Web site has probably more than you'd want to know about the candidate.

His bio. His stance on practically every issue out there. Glowing press reviews.

But Google users apparently have wanted to know more. Much more.

The famous search engine company has a new tool, called Suggest, that uses the results of past searches to recommend Web sites others have already looked at. Results, all in lowercase, come up as you type.

Topping the list for the governor?

"Bill richardson's views" was a popular search, and Suggest had 2.2 million entries for it. For "bill richardson's family," the program had 2.1 million recommendations. "Bill richardson's education," "bill richardson's wife" and "bill richardson's children" ranked next.

It's worth pointing out here, with no disrespect intended toward our first lady, that "dennis kucinich's hot wife" turned up 245,000 suggestions, while looking for "dennis kucinich's wife" returned 665,000 recommendations.

The other interestingly popular search about the governor was for "bill richardson's political party."

Hmmm.

While we're still on politicians here, a search for Darren White, Bernalillo County sheriff and Republican hopeful for the state's 1st Congressional District, turned up 428,000 recommendations.

Democrat and Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, along with the words "for senate," bested White, getting suggested by the search engine 617,000 times.

But, the search "darren white tattoo" netted 291,000 results.

So what's up with that? Does the sheriff have something we should all Google?

Actually, he does have Ronald Reagan's signature tattooed on one of his ankles. But all that searching out there is for a different Darren White, actually spelled Darrin, who lives in Lockport, Ill.

What about the other folks running for the Senate seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici?

A search for U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, the Albuquerque Republican, with the words "for senate" turned up 667,000 recommendations. The other suggested sites for her were usually paired with words like "congress," "congresswoman" and "nm." Definitely no tattoos.

Ditto for U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, the Santa Fe Democrat who is trying for a seat in the Senate. He better hurry if he wants better name recognition: His name with the word "congress" got 46,000 more suggestions than Udall with the word "senate."

The other Republican in the race, U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, is also a professional baseball player, according to the search tool. Oh, wait, not that Steve Pearce.

OK, enough politics already.

Wondering which Lobos sports program is the most popular on the Web? Football takes the cake, with 1.8 million recommendations compared to 1.3 million for soccer. Nothing too exciting there.

But where do all the Lobos go? To the "frontier restaurant, albuquerque," which returned 237,000 results.

And what if they get sick? They head to "unmh," which is a popular hospital on the Web, showing up on 36,300 sites, but not as much as "unmotivational posters," which is on 268,000 Web pages.

Would it matter if you capitalized that?

No. Queries for both "UNM" and "unm" bring up "unmountable boot volume," which for whatever reason, is on Web sites 92,600 times.

So what will they think of next? Someone is already looking for it, apparently, because the words "new search engine better than google" turns up 14.4 million times.