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Google Zeitgeist 2013

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Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#21

What a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.

I don't even know what I'm looking at here.

It renders incorrectly, had zero info and just shows me pictures of Hollywood celebrities.

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#22
Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box.

The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility. Anyone else thinks that the silent conversion tactics are slowly becoming more obvious?

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#23
post #17

Did I miss something or is 2013 already over? Also, didn't find any mention of NSA or Snowden. Sadly, I wasn't surprised.

Snowden is #97 for me. I suspect that the results are localized (Germany for me).

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#24

You seriously mean to tell me that the most popular search on Google for 2013 is 'Paul Walker' followed by 'iPhone 5s'? What? Surely 'Weather' would be higher. I simply don't know what I'm looking at here.

I imagine this is a variant of a Latent Dirichlet Allocation[0]. Informally, this will identify words "most associated" with 2013, which is not the same thing as the most searched words in 2013.

Put another way, unless there's a huge spike of interest in the weather in 2013 compared to other years, "weather" won't be included.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#25
post #22

Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box. The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility. Anyone else thinks that the silent conversion tactics are slowly becoming more obvious?

Consider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video.

It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#27

I would prefer a .txt file list over this, I can't even tell the order without individual clicks.

http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=2013. Not a text file but, a much better format than the op.

Edit: Apparently this is linked in the bottom left corner of the page... totally missed it. What an effective site design.

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#28
There must be something wrong with this list when Edward Snowden is at #97 and Paul Walker is #2.

To make this more clear: Snowden was the top Google search for many days, perhaps as long as the incident of Paul Walkers death until now.

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2013

#29
I'm usually quite impressed by Google's Zeitgeist videos, this one was disappointing however. It's short (a minute shorter than 2012 and 2011), doesn't include many of the important events of the year, and is rather uninspiring. What happened?
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