Remember that : "When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the same city." (http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#4)
I might be wrong, but I think that implies that... 1) Cities that centralize a big share of internet communications of any given country will be taken into account first in Google's calculations. I guess that internet providers servers are more decentralized in the US or in France than in Indonesia or Australia, which make Jakarta, Sidney and Adelaide rank high. 2) In a country where people use Google for their daily life, the term REALbasic will be searched for relatively less (it has less weight, considering the number of requests for hairdresser, cab, sex, pets, and so on). Whereas in poorer country (Indonesia ?), a bigger share of googles will represent the fields of interest of the relatively few local geeks, IT workers and so on (compare the results for "pets" and "HTML"). So all Google trends are very relative, and I don't think they mean much in terms of market shares. Octave P.S. : Check for "sex" too. Once methodology issues are adresses, I think Google Trends can teach us a lot about cultures. Le 15 mai 07, à 08:50, Giovanni a écrit : > I was about to say the same thing. LOL > > Lars Jensen wrote: >>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=REALbasic&ctab=1&sa=N >>> >>> interesting to see exactly where the bulk of searches about RB are >>> coming from, no?? >>> >> >> I get similar results no matter what I put into that box. >> >> lj _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
