"Is Google Trends the Ultimate Time-Wasting Tool for Geeks?

[Rach3]

Time to alert you geeks to a new method of wasting hours of time looking at useless graphs.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Albe...wton,+galileo+galilei&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

 

[Rach3]

Hillary Clinton, John McCain

 

[Rach3]

apples, oranges

 

[Rach3]

february...

 

[Rach3]

and, or, the

 

[heartless]

how stupid it is,
0,1
http://www.google.com/trends?q=0,+1&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

(not for kids)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex,+masturbation&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=creation,+evolution&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=nonsense,sense&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

What's going on with it?

 

[chronon]

Time to alert you geeks to a new method of wasting hours of time looking at useless graphs.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Albe...wton,+galileo+galilei&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Of course it helps if you can spell 'Isaac'

 

[moose]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=physics,+biology,+chemistry,+science&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

physics, chemistry, biology, and science are all on the decline... wtf

EDIT: Same with 'technology'

 

[Cyrus]

AHAHAHAH Heartless, I serached those too. The middle east LOVES the smut. That's what happens to all those repressed people over there. !

That is not the first time pakistan is at the head of the class.

 

[Rach3]

panic

Why the Hockey-stick shape?

 

[Rach3]

me stupid

doubled in six months...

 

[Rach3]

condensed matter

on the decline?

 

[wolram]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=physics,+biology,+chemistry,+science&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

physics, chemistry, biology, and science are all on the decline... wtf

EDIT: Same with 'technology'

That is so true, it will all come in boil in the bag in the future, and if you do not buy it you will starve.

 

[mattmns]

Pakistan on top again
http://www.google.com/trends?q=penis+enlargement&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Do we have any brits from Birmingham, or Manchester?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

 

[Rach3]

ITER, cold fusion

figures.

 

[Gokul43201]

Very interesting regional data on some of those. But it's not clear how they do the normalization...

 

[Rach3]

Yeah, it seems Pakistan is always #1 in everything...

moving on:

diplomacy, war

 

[Rach3]

Leonhard Euler, Brad Pitt

 

[heartless]

this google trend is just dumb.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=pakista,+usa,+portn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
doesn't make sense
http://www.google.com/trends?q=pakistan,+usa,+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=stupid+google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=nothing,+everyhing&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=end,+start&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

 

[Cyrus]

I dedicate this to Gokul.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=rickshaw&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=tuk+tuk&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

 

[theCandyman]

What fun! Here's an ineresting one, you can see that 'bike' picks up during the summer every year, and drops during the winter.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bike,+car&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Paper, rock, scissors: http://www.google.com/trends?q=paper,+rock,+scissors&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

 

[Gokul43201]

I dedicate this to Gokul.

Ooh, thanks...I guess (?)

Looks like American English is getting more pervasive than Brit English.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=maximise,+maximize&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
Look at the relative numbers in Asia and Aurope; it's close even in England and Ireland.

And strangely, 'minimize' trumps 'minimise' even in England and Ireland. It's only the Aussies and Kiwis that're still holding out !

PS : They're talking about this right now on the radio (specifically the regional distribution of the 'sex' search).

 

[SimplySolitary_]

Heh, what won't Google do?!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Jesus+Christ,+Sex&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all"

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Jesus+Christ,+Bush&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all"

Intersting. Perhaps it shows where our morals lie?

 

[scott1]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google,+yahoo,+msn&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all"

 

[mattmns]

Ooh, thanks...I guess (?)

Looks like American English is getting more pervasive than Brit English.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=maximise,+maximize&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
Look at the relative numbers in Asia and Aurope; it's close even in England and Ireland.

And strangely, 'minimize' trumps 'minimise' even in England and Ireland. It's only the Aussies and Kiwis that're still holding out !

Am I missing something here? When I looked at the regional distribution, both the UK and Ireland have more in maximiSe than in maximiZe

 

[Manchot]

This one's kind of scary: Kerry

 

[Cyrus]

How do you make hyperlinks like that Manchot?

 

[Mk]

Just type [ url=LINK]Word to show up[/ url]
Word to show up

 

[Mk]

(not for kids)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex,+masturbation&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Interesting how four of the top five are predominately Islam, in addition to in those countries a very small amount of people have internet access at their leisure.

Leonhard Euler, Brad Pitt

Interesting how Leonhard Euler is immortal and Brad Pitt won't be remembered of in only ten years.

Tsunmai
World Trade Center
Death vs. destruction
Google trends
Quantum electrodynamics

 

[moose]

I like to find nice sinusoidal graphs like

http://www.google.com/trends?q=college+application&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

 

[siddharth]

I wonder how they do the normalization.

 

[Cyrus]

They just get rid of the abnormalness, duh.

 

[heartless]

http://google.com/trends?q=cyrus&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all