NationStates Jolt Archive

Google is now releasing info on how much a word is searched using google nationwise.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/12/business/google.php
A nation's interests? Google tells all
By Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2006
MUMBAI, India

Google lifted the veil this week on one of its best-kept secrets: which nations search for what.

Who looks up democracy most avidly? Who seeks out Allah or Christ most faithfully? Who types in "drugs" or "sex" most frequently?

No country's secrets are spared.

Pakistanis look up "Danish cartoons" more avidly than anyone, :rolleyes: according to Google. They also lead the rankings for "sex":p - with their neighbor and nuclear rival India seldom far behind.

"In Pakistani society, sex is a taboo," said Fatima Idrees, a project manager at the Pakistani affiliate of the Gallup International polling agency, adding that "curiosity and availability of the Internet may cause such behavior."

The site introduced Thursday, Google Trends, measures how often particular phrases are searched for from computers in individual countries and cities. It short-lists the places with the highest absolute number of searches for, say, "cat food." Then it picks the top 10 or so based on which places look up "cat food" much more than they do other things - for instance, "dog food."

The Google Trends site is likely to generate a mix of consternation, embarrassment and laughter around the world. While Google emphasizes that its efforts to protect individuals' privacy, the new site does nothing to protect the collective privacy of nations, if such a thing exists - the right of the British to conceal that they look up "handcuffs" most often, or the right of China's leaders to hide that Mandarin ranks second only to English as the language used to look up "democracy," or the right of other officials to hide that Arabic-speaking users rarely look up "democracy."

"This is a fascinating project, effortlessly offering a glimpse into regional and cultural habits and differences that is otherwise nearly impossible to reproduce," said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University.

"This sort of feature reminds us that the Internet is global, yet not one undifferentiated mass," he added. "Such measurement may help us understand the origin and movement of ideas as they sweep regions and the world."

The Google rankings also generate a new kind of interest-level rating for politicians - as for countries, brands or anything else people look up. Now, the most vain (and most regularly searched) among us can check how many people are looking us up, where they are from - and, most important, whether they search more for us or for our rivals.

In India, suspicions that Sonia Gandhi is the power behind the throne of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appear to be buttressed by search results. As the leader of India's governing Congress Party, Gandhi gets about 50 percent more searches from Indian users than Singh does.

French users, meanwhile, shed light on France's power struggles. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy draws as many searches on his own as his rivals, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, combined.

For politicians with sagging poll numbers, Google's index might be some consolation: it records how often people look you up, not whether they love you. To bring Machiavelli's famous formulation into the age of Web surfing, it may be better for a prince - or president or prime minister - to be searched than loved, if he cannot be both.

President George W. Bush commands at least seven times as many searches in Russia as its own leader, Vladimir Putin. Among the French, Bush generates about 50 percent more look-ups than Chirac; among Iranians, Bush is searched twice as often as the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.:D

Not everything on the site is a surprise. People in Boston and Minneapolis and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lead the search for "mittens." Dubliners top the list in "Guinness" searches. When it comes to looking up "dowry," surfers in Pakistan and India are clear leaders.

Other findings are quirkier, and at times to difficult to explain.

Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for "gay sex," :eek: :p behind the Philippines.

And consider the list of cities that most frequently look up "amour," the French word for love. Paris, allegedly a romantic haven, is absent from the top 10. The top three berths went to Rabat, Morocco; Algiers and Tunis.

Other findings suggest the stirrings of a trend. Searchers for "Allah" come overwhelmingly from the Islamic world. But, in a sign of shifting social realities, the word is searched from the Dutch-language version of Google more avidly than from the Arabic-language one. Norwegian, French, Danish, Swedish and German sites also featured in the top 10 for "Allah" inquiries.

"Guns" is a word easy to associate with the United States. But the rising incidence of violent kidnappings and murders in Latin America has perhaps driven searchers to the Web for answers. Buenos Aires leads the cities index for "guns" searches, and Argentina as a whole outranks the United States, with Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru also in the top 10.

The Google system can also be queried one country at a time, to determine, for example, how frequently people in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are looking up "democracy." The Bush administration is unlikely to be pleased by Google's reply for each of those countries: "Your terms - democracy - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.":p

Have fun finding out which nation is searches the most of what...:)

http://www.google.com/trends

is the link

That's an interesting tool.

Wow, that's cool. Go Saudi Arabia.

Top ten cities that search for thermal underwear:
1. Milton Keynes United Kingdom

2. Thames Ditton United Kingdom

3. Manchester United Kingdom

4. Sheffield United Kingdom

5. London United Kingdom

6. Brentford United Kingdom

7. New York United States

8. Miami United States

9. Boston United States

10. Birmingham United Kingdom


I can see this type of thing filling the next few pages.

Top countries for 'cheeses':

1. New Zealand

2. United States

3. United Kingdom

4. Australia

5. Canada

6. India

7. France

Top ten cities for 'Nationstates'. So who lives in Pennsauken?

1. Pennsauken United States

2. Portland United States

3. Dublin Ireland

4. Edinburgh United Kingdom

5. Birmingham United Kingdom

6. Brisbane Australia

7. Vancouver Canada

8. Brentford United Kingdom

9. Manchester United Kingdom

10. Sydney Australia

AHH! :eek: It's Brentford again! Is the fact that Brenford appears in the top ten searches for Porn and Nationstates coincidence? I think not.;)

The US leads the way in midget porn!

1. United States

2. United Kingdom

3. Australia

4. New Zealand

5. Canada

6. Finland

7. Denmark

8. Sweden

9. Belgium

10. Netherlands

By city:

1. St Louis United States

2. Tampa United States

3. Portland United States

4. San Diego United States

5. Chicago United States

6. Denver United States

7. Manchester United Kingdom

8. Philadelphia United States

9. Los Angeles United States

10. Atlanta United States

Top ten cities that search for thermal underwear:
1. Milton Keynes United Kingdom

2. Thames Ditton United Kingdom

3. Manchester United Kingdom

4. Sheffield United Kingdom

5. London United Kingdom

6. Brentford United Kingdom

7. New York United States

8. Miami United States

9. Boston United States

10. Birmingham United Kingdom


I can see this type of thing filling the next few pages.

WTF. I went to school there. Why would they be interested in thermal underwear?

Top ten cities for 'Nationstates'. So who lives in Pennsauken?

1. Pennsauken United States

2. Portland United States

3. Dublin Ireland

4. Edinburgh United Kingdom

5. Birmingham United Kingdom

6. Brisbane Australia

7. Vancouver Canada

8. Brentford United Kingdom

9. Manchester United Kingdom

10. Sydney Australia

AHH! :eek: It's Brentford again! Is the fact that Brenford appears in the top ten searches for Porn and Nationstates coincidence? I think not.;)
Dublin FTW!
Searces for Firefox:
1. Hamburg Germany

2. Cologne Germany

3. Berlin Germany

4. Frankfurt Am Main Germany

5. Munich Germany

6. Stuttgart Germany

7. San Francisco United States

8. Helsinki Finland

9. Paris France

10. Zurich Switzerland

Wow, Germans love Firefox.

The US leads the way in midget porn!New Zealand leads in searches for pokemon porn O_o

1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. Norway
4. United States
5. Canada
6. United Kingdom
7. Finland
8. Mexico
9. Denmark
10. Netherlands

New Zealand leads in searches for pokemon porn O_o

Ireland leads in searches for donkey porn.

1. Ireland

2. United Kingdom

3. Australia

4. United States

5. Canada

6. Finland

7. Turkey

8. Germany

9. India

10. Poland

Freeware (The Bundesrepublik loves freebies, it would seem)

1. Hannover Germany

2. Dusseldorf Germany

3. Munich Germany

4. Hamburg Germany

5. Nuremberg Germany

6. Dortmund Germany

7. Stuttgart Germany

8. Frankfurt Am Main Germany

9. Cologne Germany

10. Berlin Germany


Hentai (the Phillipines are MASSIVELY in front on this one, btw)

1. Manila Philippines

2. Makati Philippines

3. Santiago Chile

4. Mexico City Mexico

5. Lima Peru

6. Bogota Colombia

7. Sao Paulo Brazil

8. Buenos Aires Argentina

9. Caracas Venezuela

10. Los Angeles United States

Guess who loves tub girl:
1. Perth Australia

2. Minneapolis United States

3. Orlando United States

4. Portland United States

5. Seattle United States

6. Brisbane Australia

7. Philadelphia United States

8. St Louis United States

9. Chicago United States

10. Boston United States

I like the way we've all started looking up who searches for Pr0n on the internet. It confirms my beliefs about the current state of humanity. :p

Kinda like looking up rude words in the dictionary, hmm?

Nooooo.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=penis

Nooooo.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=penis
LMAO-http://www.google.com/trends?q=penis+enlargement&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
I guess the men in Dehli aren't feeling adequate. Or maybe the women don't think they are......

Finland is the world leader of goatse searches (whatever the hell goatse is, I imagine it's some kind of goat-porn, but I've heard it referenced to jokingly on several forums as something unpleasant). By miles.

That said, if it actually means something in Finnish then oh well.

Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for "gay sex," behind the Philippines.

Thats not all that surprising for people who are familiar with Arab culture. Its been notorious throughout history for homosexuality.

Finland is the world leader of goatse searches (whatever the hell goatse is, I imagine it's some kind of goat-porn, but I've heard it referenced to jokingly on several forums as something unpleasant). By miles.

That said, if it actually means something in Finnish then oh well.

Much, much worse.

Regions searching for wmd:
1. United States

2. Ireland :confused:

3. Singapore

4. Australia

5. United Kingdom

6. India

7. Canada

8. Netherlands

9. Finland

10. Belgium

The US leads the top cities in search for politics.
1. Washington United States

2. Reston United States

3. New York United States

4. Minneapolis United States

5. Austin United States

6. Boston United States

7. Philadelphia United States

8. San Francisco United States

9. Seattle United States

10. Los Angeles United States
The phillipines is the top as a country though. I find it funny that they lead the world in both 'politics' and 'gay sex' :)

Finland is the world leader of goatse searches (whatever the hell goatse is, I imagine it's some kind of goat-porn, but I've heard it referenced to jokingly on several forums as something unpleasant). By miles.

That said, if it actually means something in Finnish then oh well.

http://www.the-elite.net/ClarkPage/Phases/

Completely Goatse free, absolutely worksafe, even little kiddies could look at this! Please don't hurt me!

http://www.the-elite.net/ClarkPage/Phases/

Completely Goatse free, absolutely worksafe, even little kiddies could look at this! Please don't hurt me!
SO painfully in accurate. Stage two should be his head exploding. That should be it.

SO painfully in accurate. Stage two should be his head exploding. That should be it.

I'm still retching from when I got sent goatse-spam in my email inbox.

Cities that search(wtf?) for spam:
1. San Francisco United States

2. San Diego United States

3. Seattle United States

4. Los Angeles United States

5. London United Kingdom

6. Dallas United States

7. Melbourne Australia

8. Atlanta United States

9. New York United States

10. Houston United States

Top Countries looking up "Google" on google...

1. India

2. United Kingdom

3. Portugal

4. France

5. Canada

6. Australia

7. Spain

8. Argentina

9. Chile

10. Turkey

Those Indians really like Google...

LMAO-http://www.google.com/trends?q=penis+enlargement&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
I guess the men in Dehli aren't feeling adequate. Or maybe the women don't think they are......It seems especially popular in pakistan, if you look at regions rather than cities.

Regions searching for French military victories:
1. United Kingdom

2. United States

3. Australia

4. New Zealand

5. Canada

6. Sweden

7. Denmark

8. Finland

9. Belgium

10. France
And look at the graph:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=french+military+victories&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sa=N

the USSA?

COMMUNISM
1. Perth Australia

2. Brisbane Australia

3. Sydney Australia

4. Melbourne Australia

5. San Diego United States

6. Philadelphia United States

7. Washington United States

8. Chicago United States

9. San Francisco United States

10. New York United States

Regions searching for Chuck Norris:
1. Poland

2. South Africa

3. Hungary

4. Norway

5. Ireland

6. United States

7. Canada

8. Australia

9. Brazil

10. Sweden
And the graph again. Notice the 'fad spike' as I like to call it:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=Chuck+Norris&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sa=N

hehehe the top city for 'fuck america' is Portland, Oregon, and the usa as a country is in second place.

Cities searching for child porn:
1. Izmir Turkey

2. Istanbul Turkey

3. Ankara Turkey

4. Perth Australia

5. Melbourne Australia

6. Seattle United States

7. Sydney Australia

8. Toronto Canada

9. Los Angeles United States

10. Chicago United States

Cities searching for child porn:

8. Toronto Canada

Gah! no, not toronto!

Gah! no, not toronto!
Canada is eigth in the regions too, in between the phillipines at 7th and the US at 9th.

i find it disturbing how many lists Australia is on

It seems that the Germans (http://www.google.com/trends?q=vampire&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all) (more specifically, those in Hamburg) are having a bit of trouble with their fanged brethren.
Though it does swell my heart with pride for my ancestor's homeland to see that the Irish steal the show when you add porn to the mix (http://www.google.com/trends?q=vampire+porn&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all), with the UK, NZ and Australia coming in 2-4. It seems everything that Britain touches gets a little more fucked up than it was before.

i find it disturbing how many lists Australia is on
Well if you want to change it go to google.au and keep searching over and over for 'wholesome family values'. Speaking of which:
Your terms - wholesome family values - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.

Lol.

finally, found one which Belgium tops!!!! :p

"webcam sex"
1. Brussels Belgium

2. Amsterdam Netherlands

3. Montreal Canada

4. Zurich Switzerland

5. Birmingham United Kingdom

6. Ankara Turkey

7. Toronto Canada

8. Paris France

9. Chicago United States

10. Frankfurt Am Main Germany

It seems that the Germans (http://www.google.com/trends?q=vampire&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all) (more specifically, those in Hamburg) are having a bit of trouble with their fanged brethren.
Though it does swell my heart with pride for my ancestor's homeland to see that the Irish steal the show when you add porn to the mix (http://www.google.com/trends?q=vampire+porn&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all), with the UK, NZ and Australia coming in 2-4. It seems everything that Britain touches gets a little more fucked up than it was before.
Didn't someone say that Ireland was the top for donkey porn too?

Didn't someone say that Ireland was the top for donkey porn too?
And yet, they don't appear to be searching for regular porn in any numbers at all. I guess our mundane human porn isn't good enough for the Green Isle. Nooo, they need to pervert our wholesome, normal porn with their sick fetishes.
(Oh, and its Hungary that's leading the vampire race, I read the city thing wrong and, yeah.)

And yet, they don't appear to be searching for regular porn in any numbers at all. I guess our mundane human porn isn't good enough for the Green Isle. Nooo, they need to pervert our wholesome, normal porn with their sick fetishes.
(Oh, and its Hungary that's leading the vampire race, I read the city thing wrong and, yeah.)
Hey, leave us alone. Sometimes a guy gets lonely.......

On a totally different topic:
Searches for emo:
1. Chile

2. United Kingdom

3. Australia

4. Canada

5. United States

6. Brazil

7. Turkey

8. Mexico

9. Sweden

10. Germany

For some reason Pakistan tops searches on sex, goat sex, donkey sex, cousin sex, incest :eek: etc.

Time to change the name of Pakistan (land of the pure) to napakistan (land of impure).:p

Phrase = United States of America

Topper - Nigeria :confused: by whopping lead and then Philippines and then Indian and then the US.

Since 2005, pirates have been searched for more than ninjas, but it was the other way around before that:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ninja%2C+pirate&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Zoophilia

1. Toulouse France

2. Marseille France

3. Nantes France

4. Rennes France

5. Lyon France

6. Paris France

7. Montreal Canada

8. Mexico City Mexico

9. Buenos Aires Argentina

10. Lisbon Portugal

Whats wrong with those frenchys? :eek:

Search For: Norway
Regions:
1. Norway
2. Pakistan
3. Ireland
4. Sweden
5. United Kingdom
6. Denmark
7. Finland
8. Israel
9. India
10. New Zealand

So Pakistanis are the second most interest people in Norway?

Countries that search for "America_

1. Peru-wtf?

2. United States

3. Colombia

4. Mexico

5. Venezuela

6. Argentina

7. Chile

8. Canada

9. India

10. Australia

Instead of looking at regions I looked at languages. Apparently from originating lanaguages sex is the only the 9th most common originating language. The top was Vietnamese, with Arabic coming a close second.

Language information is determined by the language version of the Google site on which the search was originally entered.

Regions googling anarchist's cookbook:
1. United States

2. Canada

3. Australia

4. United Kingdom

5. Netherlands

6. Germany

Search For: Norway

So Pakistanis are the second most interest people in Norway?

There is a sizeable Pak immigrant community in Norway.

Mexico city tops Berlin on searches on Hitler. :confused: :eek:

Regions searching for Brokeback Mountain:
1. Philippines

2. Singapore

3. United States

4. Canada

5. Australia

6. Portugal

7. United Kingdom

8. Mexico

9. Sweden

10. Spain

The phillipines? WTF?

Anyone else try checking band names? I decided to try and figure out which country is responsible for the continued music careers of Linkin Park (Its Peru (http://www.google.com/trends?q=linkin+park&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)), Avril Lavigne (Bolivians, there are no words for my disgust (http://www.google.com/trends?q=avril+lavigne&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)) and Slipknot (the fucking Venezualans (http://www.google.com/trends?q=slipknot&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)). Could this be South America's revenge on the US for the Reagan era? We supported their murderous dictators to torment them, and now they support our shitty bands to torment us back?

And you Brits say that we're the greedy ones,

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

http://www.google.com/trends?q=liberty%2C+security&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Hmmm



And you Brits say that we're the greedy ones,
We do?

Mexico city and Monterrey, Mexico are 7th and 8th followed by Santiago, Chile in 10th for the word Gandhi. Also Spanish tops language wise.:confused:

Those south Americans are defnitely upto something.

Guess who loves tub girl:
1. Perth Australia

2. Minneapolis United States

3. Orlando United States

4. Portland United States

5. Seattle United States

6. Brisbane Australia

7. Philadelphia United States

8. St Louis United States

9. Chicago United States

10. Boston United States


How the fuck is Minnesota second ...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=liberty%2C+security&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Hmmm




We do?
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=liberty&word2=security

http://www.google.com/trends?q=liberty%2C+security&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

HmmmYou lose at google.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=rights%2C+security%2C+freedom%2C+liberty&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

Freedom rates much higher than liberty, and rights does fairly well.

Anyway, I'm emmigrating to New Zealand.

Anyone else try checking band names? I decided to try and figure out which country is responsible for the continued music careers of Linkin Park (Its Peru (http://www.google.com/trends?q=linkin+park&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)), Avril Lavigne (Bolivians, there are no words for my disgust (http://www.google.com/trends?q=avril+lavigne&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)) and Slipknot (the fucking Venezualans (http://www.google.com/trends?q=slipknot&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)). Could this be South America's revenge on the US for the Reagan era? We supported their murderous dictators to torment them, and now they support our shitty bands to torment us back?

As much as I hate to admit it, Avril is Canadian...

It seems I (Ilie) am most popular in Sibiu.

Top cities (normalized)

1. Sibiu, Romania
2. Suceava, Romania
3. Craiova, Romania
4. Bucharest, Romania
5. Constanta, Romania
6. Timisoara, Romania
7. Iasi, Romania
8. Brasov, Romania
9. Galati, Romania
10. Oradea, Romania