Roland Deschain
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Hey,
I searched this forum and did not find anything mentioning this, so here goes.
Google just came out with Google Trends, which is basically a summary of how often a term was googled as a function of time, region, or language. As an example, you can search for Half life 2 and see when the most people googled that word, where they lived and so forth... (http://www.google.com/trends?q=half+life+2&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all)
Now being of a very dirty mind, the second term I entered (I cannot tell you the first, I do want to go to heaven) is sex. And the funniest thing is that muslim regions hold the record for googling the term 'sex'. I mean no offense by this, I'm just quoting a source that I find reliable. The first problem with this that I see is that there are far fewer computers in muslim countries than in Europe/America, so either google trends takes this into account or those mustlim countries (even with the limited amount of computers) are still googling that term more. I'm not really suprized.
Next I tried my last name, and it turns out that the most time this term was googled when somebody with my last name apologized just before he got the chair. :angel:
And the last thing I did was the vatican. The volume went from near zero to a huge amout of traffic during the end of Paul II raign and went back down to zero as soon as the new pontif was appointed.
I did a lot more, but I don't want to spoil the fun. It's a great research tool and it provides a lot of information.
Have fun all.
http://www.google.com/trends
PS: I do not work for Google. Oh shit, they told me not to say that in the instructional video.
I searched this forum and did not find anything mentioning this, so here goes.
Google just came out with Google Trends, which is basically a summary of how often a term was googled as a function of time, region, or language. As an example, you can search for Half life 2 and see when the most people googled that word, where they lived and so forth... (http://www.google.com/trends?q=half+life+2&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all)
Now being of a very dirty mind, the second term I entered (I cannot tell you the first, I do want to go to heaven) is sex. And the funniest thing is that muslim regions hold the record for googling the term 'sex'. I mean no offense by this, I'm just quoting a source that I find reliable. The first problem with this that I see is that there are far fewer computers in muslim countries than in Europe/America, so either google trends takes this into account or those mustlim countries (even with the limited amount of computers) are still googling that term more. I'm not really suprized.
Next I tried my last name, and it turns out that the most time this term was googled when somebody with my last name apologized just before he got the chair. :angel:
And the last thing I did was the vatican. The volume went from near zero to a huge amout of traffic during the end of Paul II raign and went back down to zero as soon as the new pontif was appointed.
I did a lot more, but I don't want to spoil the fun. It's a great research tool and it provides a lot of information.
Have fun all.
http://www.google.com/trends
PS: I do not work for Google. Oh shit, they told me not to say that in the instructional video.
