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Your new toy. Try "economics, physics". Three of the top four cities doing the searches are in India.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 10, 2006 at 05:56 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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Who googles "economics"? No, really?
I have my little pet theory that says that you can tell a lot about a person by the degree of rafinement and specificity he puts into his search queries. By that standards, don't fear outsourcing yet.
For comparison, try searching for "ANOVA", "p-value" or "price theory". For a conterexample to my claim, we can try "game theory". :-)
Posted by: Gabriel Mihalache at May 10, 2006 6:21:45 PM
Iran: #3 for 'sex', #1 for 'girl'.
Posted by: Doug at May 10, 2006 7:04:02 PM
they didn't show up at all for 'nuclear'
Posted by: josh at May 10, 2006 7:44:09 PM
This is what 15 minutes of fame in Washington looks like:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Jessica+Cutler&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
Posted by: Andrew at May 10, 2006 8:09:42 PM
More than 15 minutes:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22john+kerry%22&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
Posted by: Noumenon at May 10, 2006 8:35:39 PM
The W. trends are similar to Kerry's, though.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22George+W.+Bush%22&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
Posted by: scott cunningham at May 10, 2006 8:53:40 PM
Interestingly, a large part of the Muslim world dominates the rankings for the word 'sex'.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 11, 2006 12:57:19 AM
Search for any computer term and the first five cities seem to be in India.... I work for an outsourced software team so I shouldn't be that surprised.
Posted by: Andrew at May 11, 2006 1:37:25 AM
http://www.google.com/trends?q=iran%2C+iraq&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
No Iran boost...
Posted by: Doug at May 11, 2006 2:31:38 AM
But under "regions", Pakistan beats India for economics and physics. Apparently the city list can be misleading.
Posted by: DK at May 11, 2006 8:13:00 AM
http://www.google.com/trends?q=markets%2C+politics&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
Looks like a big spike in "politics" around the U.S. election season in late 2004.
Note that 4 of the top 5 cities for "markets" are in Australia, and markets beat politics by wide margins. In the two U.S. cities in the top 10, New York and Philadelphia, markets beat politics by narrower margins.
But looking at the Regions tab shows that for the United States as a whole, politics beats markets.
Now switch the search order to "politics, markets":
http://www.google.com/trends?q=politics%2C+markets&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
The top 10 cities are in the U.S., starting with Washington, Reston (Virginia), New York, Austin...
Posted by: Mike G at May 11, 2006 11:10:13 AM
I was looking for seasonal trends and punched in "MBA". Turns out almost all the top cities searching for "MBA" are in India.
Posted by: Andrew Edwards at May 11, 2006 11:29:50 AM
There's a big disconnect between the city and region rankings. I've been searching prurient terms of varying filth to see if the Muslim dominance holds (only for some, and it's interesting which colloquial terms for the female sex organ are used in which areas of the world).
Example, and I apologize for the language: "pussy" lists all top ten cities in the US, but hit the region tab and South Africa beats the USA by more than a factor of two. Am I to believe that's because these masses of SA searches are coming form the wired low population villages across the country? Obviously not.
Maybe South African IP addresses or something about the telecoms structure there makes it difficult to tie a person to a particular city. Or perhaps there's some much bigger flaw at work here. Please not the disclaimer at the bottom of the page when you get your results. This is a fun toy, but it's not reliable to support a serious blog post conclusion, let alone real research.
Posted by: Dylan at May 11, 2006 11:55:07 AM
Note that the top two cities searching for "penis enlargement" are also in India. Is Indian search volume overrepresented? Is it city size?
Posted by: Thomas Themel at May 11, 2006 4:44:39 PM
I would think it's small Indian penises...
Posted by: Dylan at May 11, 2006 8:35:18 PM
Search for "taxes" - it looks like a heart monitor.
Posted by: rvman at May 12, 2006 10:32:41 AM
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