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Remember that the sheer number of people makes all country-based comparisons pointless. Here, China has 3 times more searches for Golang but has a more than 10
by rakoo 12y ago
Remember that the sheer number of people makes all country-based comparisons pointless.
Here, China has 3 times more searches for Golang but has a more than 100 times bigger population. That would make Go more popular in Sweden... except if you consider that not everyone searches for "golang", which is much more visible when you look at the city-based comparison (a more accurate description of what's happening)
- neurobro 12y agoIs that really how Google gauges interest? Raw number of searches? I would think it's more useful to normalize in some way (perhaps by searches across all countries) for the very reason you state. If so, maybe what's happening is that Baidu doesn't provide very good results for Golang, so a relatively large proportion of Google's small market presence in China are people who jumped to Google just to search for Golang.