Endless fun.
Awesome: full moon
Could be awesome: full moon, werewolves it would be nice if google crunched the statistics for us to see if there were any correlation. as is, we don’t have the resolution to eyeball it
Inverse!: summer, winter
terminology: autumn, fall. Check out the “Regions” stats on this one, UK vs. US
From the “I wish the stats went back 10 years” department: clinton, blowjob seems uneventful at first… but wait! forget about clinton– what’s up with the blowjob spike around New Year’s 2006??? let’s zoom in: blowjob @ dec 2005 blowjob @ feb 2006
Remember this fiasco?: sony rootkit
Katrina hits New Orleans, Houston offers help: katrina, houston
Hmm, looks interesting: flu, fear. check out some of the individual months. in some of them, the two terms have a distinct inverse relationship. flu, fear @ dec 2005 totally baffling.
It’s official, Web 2.0 is bad for innovation: web 2.0, innovation
Sigh: hiv, darfur, ringtones, iraq war, hiv, darfur, healthcare, football
Wow, I wouldn’t have thought of all these uses. Until now I have mostly just used it to confirm that words like “gafas” are used mostly in Spain (as opposed to “lentes” in Latin American Spanish). “Full moon” was cool. Of course, “autumn, fall” is obscured by the fact that “fall” has two meanings in English (unless I missed some crazy filter). Don’t worry too much about football, sex has it beat.
So I tried something else on Google Trends, since I remember that my brother had told me that they don’t really use the word “muchacho” in Chile (that it was more Mexican). I looked up the word, and found that it was actually most popular in Ecuador.
However, I had another idea: to test whether the four different forms of that word (plural/singular, masculine/feminine) would show the same country results. I would think they would be pretty much the same. I was suprised to see that they weren’t. In fact, the most searches for “muchacha” seem to come from Lithuania, which, last time I checked, wasn’t a Spanish-speaking country.
Also strange: seaching for the different terms together (comma-separated) produces different lists of countries depending on the word order.
Still at a loss to explain the great blowjob spike. This is going to be my life’s quest.