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Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by nborgo » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

snth wrote: post #15

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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?

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.

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.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by rwhitman » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:26 PM UTC

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

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by run4yourlives » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:45 PM UTC

AntiRush wrote: post #19

markkanof wrote: post #7

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?

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".

Depends on whose entertainment we're talking about I suppose.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by jokermatt999 » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 6:04 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #16

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.

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.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by will_critchlow » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 8:36 PM UTC

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-pred...).

[Starts digging around in Excel...].

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 9:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by bourdine » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 9:15 PM UTC

daliusd wrote: post #3

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

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.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by redstripe » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 9:49 PM UTC

Nice charts. They seem to be fancier then what they provide in the visualization API. http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall...

It would be nice if they shared more of what they used internally.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by tibbon » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 9:53 PM UTC

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.

Re: Google 2010 Zeitgeist

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Post by initself » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 10:04 PM UTC

redstripe wrote: post #28

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

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.