Friday, May 19, 2006

What's on your mind?

So google has this new toy, called Google Trends, where you can see the use trends for different search words, by city, region, language and time. Needless to say, it's a fascinating time waster. Not only is it interesting to see which city in the world is most likely to be searching for "toothpaste" (Mumbai, India) or "usmle" (St.Albans, UK; follwed by Baltimore, US and then Delhi, India), it's also interesting to see what the trend searchers are searching for: "man, machine", "air conditioning, heating", "grits", "tom cruise, katie holmes"...


And it's fun to look at the depressing predictibility of some things, such as what our country's leaders have on their mind in Washington DC:



Or the beautiful, cyclical predictibility of other searches:

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