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Google Trends Anyone?  

Posted by Ryan Woods

It's time to give you something a little lighter and enjoyable, my dearest readers. If indeed you are still in the mood for a serious topic, try reading my other most recent post about Gay Jesus and The Code. Otherwise...here we go...

Have you discovered Google Trends yet? Oh man, when you do find it, it is very addicting. Here's the deal on Google Trends: it is a search engine of all the searches done in the world. In other words, if you want to see who googles the phrase "hate Jesus" the most, you would find out that it is indeed Portland, Oregon! Or if you want to find out who googles kiddy porn the most, you'd find out that it's those darn Turks and South Africans! The Philippines by far google homosexuality more than any other country in the world. Weird huh? If you were wondering who googles "pewter", you'd be pleasantly surprised to see that it is either the country of Malaysia or the city of Charlotte in North Carolina.
The problem I've found is that every result is a huge generalization. They take very small numbers and then guess on a very large scale. So because of this, the results vary quite a bit. When you search pewter, you may indeed come up with something entirely different. Pretty cool though, I thought. Give it a shot and let me know what cool stuff you come up with.

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Here's something to ponder:

If you GoogleTrend "Jesus", most of the results are from South American countries.

If you GoogleTrend "Church", most of the results are from the Bible Belt.

Hm...

and if you googletrend "hell" it's mostly Oceanic countries and cities that come up (australia, New Zealand)...hmm...what does that mean?

I think it's broke...

"Your terms - road2gaza.blogspot.com - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."

Stange.

peace.

I know, I GoogleTrended my name and it told me that no one cared about me or my name. I hate you, GoogleTrend.

1) Sweden Loves Me (arwen)
2)New York, as one might suspect, loves poopy pants (Poopy Pants)
3) The only people, as one might suspect, who search Moscow, Idaho... are people from Moscow, Idaho. Interesting. It feels a bit strange commenting on your blog from your computer in your house....

Ryan you dominate me, especially in Dublin!

people are totally looking for me. yesssss.

I say briefly: Best! Useful information. Good job guys.
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