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Google 2010 Zeitgeist

64 points by joubert 16y ago

SimplePast 16y ago
I prefer this interface http://www.google.com/insights/search/# http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
daliusd 16y ago
Could somebody from Russia explain this "как жрать суши" (Translation: "How to eat sushi?")? Why it is fastest rising?
- dchest 16y ago
  Seems like a meme: people encourage others to google for "как жрать суши" and look at the first link. The first link reads "Stop eating sushi, dumbass -- eat borsch and don't show off".
- bourdine 16y ago
  Yes, there are Russian. This is not a pure meme in his understanding. foundation here - that the word "жрать". There are three common words used in respect of the word is - жрать (Russian profanity) есть (general use) and кушать (cultural variant). As anything anywhere using the profanity (from cleaners to politicians) the meme is not here, this expression for sushi can be heard quite often. I don't know if there are any country in the world, in which the mprofanity is so often used in everyday life.
ThomPete 16y ago
It's interesting. Normally one would say that visualizing the data would increase it's legibility and ability to interpret it. With this I actually feel that the most interesting and understandable thing is the listing
dochtman 16y ago
If "nicki minaj" is directly under "justin bieber" in fastest rising, why is there a bunch of other stuff between those terms in "fastest rising in entertainment"?
markkanof 16y ago
I don't understand how Katy Perry can be on the general fastest rising list, but not on the entertainment fastest rising list? Is this a judgement on Google's part that she isn't entertaining?
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- AntiRush 16y ago
  A plausible (if not likely) explanation is that a large number of the searches for Katy Perry included other terms that caused Google to identify the searches as "not entertainment".
  - run4yourlives 16y ago
    Depends on whose entertainment we're talking about I suppose.
johnyzee 16y ago
> Fastest falling: 8. myspace layouts So long myspace, we hardly knew you...
varjag 16y ago
The world is not flat, but it is shallow.
Keyframe 16y ago
In video review form http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE
snth 16y ago
So does pornography not count as entertainment? I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all.
- joubert 16y ago
  I wonder what else Google filters out of their lists. Although, thinking about this a little more, perhaps they look at spikes in search data that represent "changes in mood", and filter out things that represent a constant "hum".
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  >I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all. I'm surprised that you're surprised. You expect Google, in what amounts to a press release, to direct people to pornography sites?
  - snth 16y ago
    So you're assuming Google is editing out the porn sites. I was assuming porn sites legitimately didn't make the page, and I was surprised by that.
    - nborgo 16y ago
      They filter out pretty much anything that has to do with sex, whether it's removal from Suggest or disabling instant search ("Press Enter to search"). It's hardly surprising that Google would remove it from these lists.
    - bourdine 16y ago
      maybe, is it time for creating pornoogle.com?
    - isleyaardvark 16y ago
      I could see porn sites not legitimately making that page. First of all the categories are nearly all "Fastest Rising", you can easily imagine porn queries being less volatile. Also, despite porn's popularity, there are basically no porn stars famous enough to pull the same number of queries as a Katy Perry or a Shakira.
vinhboy 16y ago
Fastest falling: Wamu -- LOL.
dmix 16y ago
Fastest Rising Translations: 5. beijing apartments This is something I've noticed recently: Moving to China is something that is becoming a much more popular among Americans.
- jokermatt999 16y ago
  I'm surprised. Considering most of what I hear about China is in relation to their government/censorship and manufacturing, what makes it an attractive place to move to? I understand they're rising in educational prominence (there was a story about that here recently even), but wouldn't the lack of freedom of speech and press be a turn off? I don't mean this as a diss to China, I seriously don't understand.
lhnz 16y ago
Wait a minute WikiLeaks isn't there..! ;)
matt1 16y ago
Off topic, but everytime I run across a Google site that I haven't seen before I can't help but marvel at the beautiful simplicity of its design. Combine that with the knowledge that Google A/B tests designs constantly, and it makes you realize how important a simple design must really be.
rwhitman 16y ago
Google has certainly upped the ante on its design efforts, everything they've been releasing lately looks beautiful
will_critchlow 16y ago
Interesting to compare product searches to actual sales data (we've been looking at this with a client: http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-predicting-christmas-sales-with-real-data/ http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-pred...). [Starts digging around in Excel...].
tocomment 16y ago
Why don't they translate the foriegn words? And is this supposed to be worldwide? Am I to understand the most popular search terms across the world are in three languages and amost all englsih? If it's not worldwide report why include the foreign terms? Someone really dropped the ball on this one.
redstripe 16y ago
Nice charts. They seem to be fancier then what they provide in the visualization API. http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall... It would be nice if they shared more of what they used internally.
- initself 16y ago
  Give them time. I thought that about the Google Finance charts, which are now a part of the visualization API, but they weren't for quite some time.
tibbon 16y ago
Interesting how South America seemed to care more about the ash cloud over Iceland (which I guess effected travel internationally, so it was an important thing) more than the gulf oil spill (which was popular even in Asia). But there's always funny little quirks in data you'll find like that. Trying to draw too much from them will drive you mad.
Vidura 16y ago
Using which tool was the video made ? Can it me made with Google's Cloud tool ?

64 points by joubert 16y ago

SimplePast 16y ago

I prefer this interface http://www.google.com/insights/search/# http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

daliusd 16y ago

Could somebody from Russia explain this "как жрать суши" (Translation: "How to eat sushi?")? Why it is fastest rising?

dchest 16y ago
Seems like a meme: people encourage others to google for "как жрать суши" and look at the first link. The first link reads "Stop eating sushi, dumbass -- eat borsch and don't show off".
bourdine 16y ago
Yes, there are Russian. This is not a pure meme in his understanding. foundation here - that the word "жрать". There are three common words used in respect of the word is - жрать (Russian profanity) есть (general use) and кушать (cultural variant). As anything anywhere using the profanity (from cleaners to politicians) the meme is not here, this expression for sushi can be heard quite often. I don't know if there are any country in the world, in which the mprofanity is so often used in everyday life.

ThomPete 16y ago

It's interesting. Normally one would say that visualizing the data would increase it's legibility and ability to interpret it. With this I actually feel that the most interesting and understandable thing is the listing

dochtman 16y ago

If "nicki minaj" is directly under "justin bieber" in fastest rising, why is there a bunch of other stuff between those terms in "fastest rising in entertainment"?

markkanof 16y ago

I don't understand how Katy Perry can be on the general fastest rising list, but not on the entertainment fastest rising list? Is this a judgement on Google's part that she isn't entertaining?

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AntiRush 16y ago
A plausible (if not likely) explanation is that a large number of the searches for Katy Perry included other terms that caused Google to identify the searches as "not entertainment".
- run4yourlives 16y ago
  Depends on whose entertainment we're talking about I suppose.

johnyzee 16y ago

> Fastest falling: 8. myspace layouts So long myspace, we hardly knew you...

varjag 16y ago

The world is not flat, but it is shallow.

Keyframe 16y ago

In video review form http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE

snth 16y ago

So does pornography not count as entertainment? I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all.

joubert 16y ago
I wonder what else Google filters out of their lists. Although, thinking about this a little more, perhaps they look at spikes in search data that represent "changes in mood", and filter out things that represent a constant "hum".
pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all. I'm surprised that you're surprised. You expect Google, in what amounts to a press release, to direct people to pornography sites?
- snth 16y ago
  So you're assuming Google is editing out the porn sites. I was assuming porn sites legitimately didn't make the page, and I was surprised by that.
  - nborgo 16y ago
    They filter out pretty much anything that has to do with sex, whether it's removal from Suggest or disabling instant search ("Press Enter to search"). It's hardly surprising that Google would remove it from these lists.
  - bourdine 16y ago
    maybe, is it time for creating pornoogle.com?
  - isleyaardvark 16y ago
    I could see porn sites not legitimately making that page. First of all the categories are nearly all "Fastest Rising", you can easily imagine porn queries being less volatile. Also, despite porn's popularity, there are basically no porn stars famous enough to pull the same number of queries as a Katy Perry or a Shakira.

vinhboy 16y ago

Fastest falling: Wamu -- LOL.

dmix 16y ago

Fastest Rising Translations: 5. beijing apartments This is something I've noticed recently: Moving to China is something that is becoming a much more popular among Americans.

jokermatt999 16y ago
I'm surprised. Considering most of what I hear about China is in relation to their government/censorship and manufacturing, what makes it an attractive place to move to? I understand they're rising in educational prominence (there was a story about that here recently even), but wouldn't the lack of freedom of speech and press be a turn off? I don't mean this as a diss to China, I seriously don't understand.

lhnz 16y ago

Wait a minute WikiLeaks isn't there..! ;)

matt1 16y ago

Off topic, but everytime I run across a Google site that I haven't seen before I can't help but marvel at the beautiful simplicity of its design. Combine that with the knowledge that Google A/B tests designs constantly, and it makes you realize how important a simple design must really be.

rwhitman 16y ago

Google has certainly upped the ante on its design efforts, everything they've been releasing lately looks beautiful

will_critchlow 16y ago

Interesting to compare product searches to actual sales data (we've been looking at this with a client: http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-predicting-christmas-sales-with-real-data/ http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-pred...). [Starts digging around in Excel...].

tocomment 16y ago

Why don't they translate the foriegn words? And is this supposed to be worldwide? Am I to understand the most popular search terms across the world are in three languages and amost all englsih? If it's not worldwide report why include the foreign terms? Someone really dropped the ball on this one.

redstripe 16y ago

Nice charts. They seem to be fancier then what they provide in the visualization API. http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall... It would be nice if they shared more of what they used internally.

initself 16y ago
Give them time. I thought that about the Google Finance charts, which are now a part of the visualization API, but they weren't for quite some time.

tibbon 16y ago

Interesting how South America seemed to care more about the ash cloud over Iceland (which I guess effected travel internationally, so it was an important thing) more than the gulf oil spill (which was popular even in Asia). But there's always funny little quirks in data you'll find like that. Trying to draw too much from them will drive you mad.

Vidura 16y ago

Using which tool was the video made ? Can it me made with Google's Cloud tool ?