Friday, July 11, 2008

Google Trends shows me I've gone into internets recession

For those of you who haven't heard of Google Trends, it's a pretty cool tool that allows you to see what's popular in the world of internet searches.

I've just realised how sad that sounds. "...the world of internet searches"

Anyway it's a good way to lose a morning finding out what the world's most popular current searches are. So I took a look this morning and this is what I see:

I've just realised how far away from the pulse of internet culture I am. Defeating the purpose of Google Trends, I had to go and google some of the terms just to find out what they were...

1: iv real - still don't know what it means. Even the related searches bit doesn't make any sense
2: betty hutton - a 1950's American singer and actress
3: edgar casey - a misspelt search for Edgar Cayce, noted 1920's medium
4: pilobolus - a Connecticut based group of dancer-athletes
5: iphone 2.0 update - I've heard of this one
6: oe cake - from someone elses blog: "OE-Cake is just a demo of the octave engine." Fact.
7: boondock saints - A movie. A good one too apparently.
8: ladyboy luvin - Apple fanboy popular search while waiting for updates...
9: ipod touch 2.0 update - *Yawn*
10: spokane news - Spokane is a small town in Washington, USA. So I guess it's a search for news from Spokane.

It seems that Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0 now?) is a very different place compared to the tubes that I knew. I would have thought the list would look like this:

Porn, Torrent, Jesus, Conspiracy, Jihad, World of Warcraft, Obama.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you're always on about the recession.