The internet’s love affair with cats is justly covered, but there’s a species that we love just as much, that makes up a large majority of the USA’s Google search history: puppies.

Everybody loves puppies! Everybody loves puppies the way everybody loves Batman!

There’s a lot of chaos going on in the world at the moment, and Batman and puppies are two of the main things that can save us a whole lot of grief every time we open our news apps.

So, at DGHQ, we got to wondering: Who searches for Batman, and who searches for puppies?

By extension: Why isn’t there a Batman Vs Puppies movie? If there was, who’d come out on top?

Using Google’s data, we analyzed people’s search behavior for Batman and puppies.

mmmhh…what does this mean?

Basically, we looked into search results for every state in the US, for “puppies” and “Batman”, over the last five years, to see who came out on top.

Here are the results:



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Surprisingly — sorry, Batman — most States searched for “puppies” more than they did the Dark Knight.

That said, the results are divisively interesting!

The more media-oriented states of the South West and North East (like California, New York, Texas) all had Batman as their clear winner.

This could be due to the movies that have been released recently, or that Catwoman herself, Selina Kyle, is doing all of the searches nationwide.

(We wouldn’t be surprised).

Puppies, on the other hand, came out on top for a massively high percentage of states. Everywhere from Colorado to Wyoming to Washington people just love searching for their canine companions.

Do we really need to explain why that might be?

Dogs are man’s best friend. It doesn’t help Batman’s cause that they’re so freakin’ cute either.

It’s time to work on how cute you look, Bruce.

Maybe Funko can help you out with that??

Here is a state-by-state breakdown:

State Winner Alabama Puppies Alaska Puppies Arizona Batman Arkansas Puppies California Batman Colorado Puppies Connecticut Batman Delaware Puppies Florida Puppies Georgia Puppies Hawaii Batman Idaho Puppies Illinois Batman Indiana Puppies Iowa Puppies Kansas Puppies Kentucky Puppies Louisiana Puppies Maine Puppies Maryland Puppies Massachusetts Puppies Michigan Puppies Minnesota Puppies Mississippi Puppies Missouri Puppies Montana Puppies Nebraska Puppies Nevada Batman New Hampshire Puppies New Jersey Batman New Mexico Batman New York Batman North Carolina Puppies North Dakota Puppies Ohio Puppies Oklahoma Puppies Oregon Puppies Pennsylvania Puppies Rhode Island Puppies South Carolina Puppies South Dakota Puppies Tennessee Puppies Texas Batman Utah Batman Vermont Puppies Virginia Puppies Washington Puppies West Virginia Puppies Wisconsin Puppies Wyoming Puppies

If you liked this infographic, you might enjoy our dogs in superhero costumes article. Guaranteed to make you smile. (Unless you’re Batman…)