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Have any of you guys played around with google trends?
Kind of odd that a search for 'tesla coil' give mostly in Czech There is only like 1/3 as many searches in english... I wonder what they are up to...
4046 gives like 90% in Turkish...
And on a broader note 'the' is searched more in the philippines, canada and Australia than in the us
And most interestingly pr0n is searched for 2x as much in Norwegian then English
And for some more 'scientific' results... Chemistry is searched for primarily in Tagalog (Philippian), but there are like 10x as many queries coming from the middle east then from the us, there are more from Pakistan from the us, uk, canada, and Australia combined
Vigilatny Registered Member #17
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I really want a turkey sandwich.
I'd bet on solar too.
I wonder how these are skewed by the location of the isp's. Reston is a huge network junction, plus it serves the greater washington dc area(NOVA, MD, etc)
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It does not take into consideration that words often have different meanings in different languages so comparing countries with different languages does not make sense unless you know the languages.
There seems to be several other problems too that makes many queries useless.
Vigilatny Registered Member #17
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Bjørn Bæverfjord wrote ...
It does not take into consideration that words often have different meanings in different languages so comparing countries with different languages does not make sense unless you know the languages.
There seems to be several other problems too that makes many queries useless.
I think careful choice of queries can overcome this. Or you can correlate the results for several synonyms. I have a hard time believing no consideration was given to that fact in the algorithm.
The same concern could be raised for words that have multiple meanings, within the same language.
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I tried a bunch of words like skip, dumpster, sidewalk, bum, butt, and fanny. I don't see any evidence that the algorithm accounts for words having different meanings in different regions or contexts. For instance, if I compare bin and trashcan, bin gets lots more hits because it's Osama Bin Laden's middle name. However, the question I really wanted to ask was whether Google Trends knew that we call a trashcan a bin in the UK.
I'm puzzled by the tesla coil thing. The Czech Republic is not too far from where Nikola Tesla was born. Maybe Tesla is still a family name there, and there are lots of entries in Czech yellow pages websites with names like Tesla's Used Tires or suchlike. I know 4hv has several members from the Czech Republic so maybe they can comment.
I never really understood what the trend thing did until I saw Ben's horse racing example
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Google Trends
There is only like 1/3 as many searches in english... I wonder what they are up to...
However, the question I really wanted to ask was whether Google Trends knew that we call a trashcan a bin in the UK.