image According to Google, there 2060 videos to watch for the search term “Shroud of Turin.” That is three time as many as last year and almost seven times as many as two years ago.

A few are duplicates. Many are parts of a whole longer than YouTube will allow as a single video. Some are just jokes. A few have no bearing on the Shroud, one way or the other. A few are for a band called the Shroud of Turin.

Is this extraordinary growth or is this just the sort of growth we are seeing for videos in general?