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I hope this hasn't been posted already . Google has just released Google Trends which allows you to see how many people are searching for certain terms. It also organizes results by city, region, and language.
For example, Most people who searched for "Orson Scott Card" were in Salt Lake City and Raleigh NC. The top countries for "Orson Scott Card" were the United States, Canada, Israel, Poland. Searches for "Orson Scott Card" also have spiked at certain times.
Searches for "Wikipedia" has been continuously increasing over the past few years.
Searches for "Google" spiked when Google released "Google Talk".
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Not only is it fun, but I can see how it is potentially useful.
For instance, has anyone wondered how long Nintendo had been planning on changing its system name to "Wii"? Type it in, and I think we can reasonably estimate that they thought up the idea in September of 2005.
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When you search for "Christmas" there is a spike every year on December 24th. There is a sharp decline by New Year's Day.
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When you search "search" there is a spike of people searching for a microsoft search engine. I think its funny that people used google to search for a search engine.
The top three locations for the search for "porn" are in the UK. hmmm, I think I always figured that one. pervs.
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Wow, more people search "The X-Files" in Helsinki, Finland, than most American cities. Never knew that!
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quote:Originally posted by rCX: When you search for "Christmas" there is a spike every year on December 24th. There is a sharp decline by New Year's Day.
When you do a search for "Corned Beef" there is a spike every year on March 16th.
And when you search for "Matzo" there is a spike every year at Passover.
quote:Wow, more people search "The X-Files" in Helsinki, Finland, than most American cities. Never knew that!
Helsinki is also fond of the work of Nobuo Uematsu (composer for the Final Fantasy games, amongst others).
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Canada, USA and Austria are the top three regions for '06 for the Buffalo Sabres. I guess Thomas Vanek is pretty popular over there.
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The spike in searches in March 2005 for "Orson Scott Card" was probably caused by the release of Shadow of the Giant.
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1. Tagalog 2. English 3. Dutch 4. Italian 5. Swedish 6. French 7. German 8. Polish 9. Portuguese 10. Spanish
The top 10 cities for "jello salad":
1. Salt Lake City United States 2. Pittsburgh United States 3. Portland United States 4. St Louis United States 5. Denver United States 6. Minneapolis United States 7. Seattle United States 8. Phoenix United States 9. Dallas United States 10. Philadelphia United States
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1. Zagreb Hrvatska 2. Seattle United States 3. Toronto Canada 4. San Francisco United States 5. Manchester United Kingdom 6. Birmingham United Kingdom 7. Los Angeles United States 8. Berlin Germany 9. Houston United States 10. Philadelphia United States
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8 of the top 10 searchers for "poutine" were Canadian cities. The other two were Nice and Paris, at #6 and #9, respectively. Why would someone in Quebec City (#1) google "poutine" so much? Don't they already know about it?
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: Check out "chocolate fountain." Apparently it is a 1) British, and 2) Utah thing.
Kat, JCPenney has those for sale now, fairly cheap.
I honestly don't get the fascination.
Haven't people ever heard of a bowl? Maybe fondu? Why the heck do you want it in a fountain? Nothing says contamination to me more than constant recirculation and plenty of spit-friendly surface area. Eew. Posts: 3950 | Registered: Mar 2006
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Auckland, New Zealand has been searching for Tupac Shakur more than anyone else, and by a decent margin (though #2 is boring old LA).
This could be the key to all mysteries! What have the Kiwis learned about Pac's whereabouts!?
Edit - and Lima, Peru is #1 for just "Tupac," and by an even larger margin! AIIEE, we're falling behind in the search for Pac!
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On the other hand, there've been a couple of spikes in people Searching for [URL=bobby fischer]Bobby Fischer[/URL].
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Wow, the [url= http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22red+october%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all] Hunt for Red October [/url] is all over the board. But naturally, only the US cares.
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Congratulations to the cities of Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco for their inability to spell "nuclear."
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This is my spelling error pet peeve, and it just irks me that there's actually a point where more people searched "definately" than "definitely."
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Mohammed overtook Jesus for about two months during the cartoon controversy, and is searched for more in the Netherlands than Jesus is.
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The Xbox is a more popular search than God...but God always has more news about Him. Other than when new Xboxes are announced/released. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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I find it amusing that more people search for "Dallas" in Richardson than in Dallas proper. (Same for "Reunion Tower.")
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1. Washington United States 2. New York United States 3. Bletchley United Kingdom 4. Los Angeles United States 5. Dallas United States 6. Tampa United States 7. London United Kingdom 8. Birmingham United Kingdom 9. Manchester United Kingdom 10. Brentford United Kingdom
There's a sharp, SHARP spike in the number of people who look up Tax Fraud around April.
Edit: Heh, look up Diet Plans. You see a HUGE HUGE spike at the beginning of every year then it drops way off. New Years Resolution anyone?
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There's a huge spike around February/March of 2004. I can't figure out why. I pored through the site during that era, and the only thing that stood out was their Ender's Game comic Posts: 1907 | Registered: Feb 2000
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