Thursday, May 11, 2006

Some Interesting Trends

Google Trends lists down the geographical locations where bulk of queries for a particular keyword come from. I tried for to find out the locations for some of these listed below....

  • Software - Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai... (San Francisco at #8)
  • Design - Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Chicago...
  • Usability - Bangalore, Chennai, Dublin, Austin, Seattle...
  • User Experience - Helsinki, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London...
  • Java, J2EE, .Net, Siebel, QA, Oracle, SQL, ASP, VB, Datawarehousing, Biztalk, testing, CMM, Mainframes - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Delhi in some order
  • Ruby, Python, Ruby on Rails - San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York,
  • Firefox - Munich (followed by 8 cities in Germany), San Francisco at #10
  • Linux - Czech Republic, India, Russia, Norway, Poland, Hungary...
  • Shahrukh - Pakistan, Morocco, India, Peru, Iran, UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, UK
  • Visa - Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Vancouver, Singapore, New York, San Francisco....
  • GRE - Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Austin, Washington, New York, Chicago
  • MBA - India, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, United States...
  • Islam - Jakarta, Bandung, Kaula Lumpur, Rabat, Cairo, Ankara.... (none of the so-called Breeding grounds in Top 10. Makes sense, because breeding involves certain amount of closed minded ness)
  • Global Warming - Brisbane, Perth, Delhi, Vancouver, Portland, Minneapolis, Washington, New York, San Francisco (DC at #7)
  • Prius - Pleasonton, Los Angeles, Irvine, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Portland...

1 comment:

compuneo said...

Good Kesava.

You have identified several interesting patterns from Google Trends.

I came across the Google's new offerings through their blog, but didn't really try to be so thorough.

You've the eye for patterns :-)