Google Trends is statastic! Not many web sites get the statastic adjective, but it’s no surprise that the Google Labs have pulled it off.
Google Trends is an anonymous snapshot of worldwide Google searches broken down by the geographic origination of the search. My favorite part is that terms are normalized, which basically means that Google takes the search term that you’re interested in as a percentage of all search terms from the geographic area you’ve selected. Google explains here.
The word or words that appears at the top of each section were the search terms that people around the world entered into Google. In all cases except the last one, these are the top results from around the world. The last comparison between Arcade Fire and TV on the Radio was limited to U.S. Google searches.
Now to see what the world has on its mind!
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When Republicans Google themselves?
Top 10 cities around the world searching for the word “corruption.”
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Hope the Romanians are voting in the midterms
Top 4 regions around the world searching for the words “democrat” and “republican.”
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Planning a vacation?
Top 10 countries around the world searching for the words “witchcraft,” compared to their search for “cannibalism,” and “spontaneous combustion.”
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We care a lot. But not as much as you.
Top 10 cities around the world searching for the word “Darfur.”
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When men are in charge
Top 10 countries that searched for the word “sex” compared to the frequency with which they searched for the term “love.”
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Now that’s not funny
Top 10 countries searching for the word “joke.” I don’t get it.
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Time for the Butter Cow!
Top 10 cities around the world that searched for “state fair.”
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“Well they’re both really important issues… the boobs, I mean.”
Top 10 cities around the world that searched for the term “breast implant” versus how often they googled the name of the Iraqi prison “Abu Ghraib.”
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“Jihad” must mean something else in Indonesian. Besides, there are hardly any Muslims there.
Top 10 languages that searched for the word “jihad” versus the frequency with which they searched for the word “terrorism” and “al Qaeda.”
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What exactly are the Indonesians planning for?
Top 10 countries that searched for the term “UFO” versus how likely they were to look up “Elvis.”
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Washington DC just isn’t very hip.
Top 10 U.S. cities that googled “TV on the Radio” compared to how often those same 10 cities searched for “Arcade Fire.”
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This entry was posted by Statastico on Friday, August 11th, 2006, at 5:57 pm, and was filed in American Culture, Internet, Media, World, "War on Terror", Google, Indonesia, Romania, Republicans, Democrats, Elections, Islam.
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