Google Trends
Following the lead of Steve Rubel and Rafael Sidi, here are some things I learned from the new Google Trends:
1. Harvard edges out Stanford, Princeton, and Yale.
2. MIT edges out Stanford.
3. The top markets for Thomson searches are all in Europe.
4. The gap between eBay and Amazon is widening.
5. The gap between Mac and PC is narrowing.
6. Wordpress is about to overtake Blogger.
7. Blogging and podcasting are neck and neck.
8. Job search is still more popular than graduate school.
RE: Observation #2
MIT indeed edges out Harvard, but the reason why is seen when one looks at the “Regions” display of results. “MIT” is included in huge volumes of searches inGerman-speaking countries, where the word “mit” translates to English as “with”. In a country like the US, without a German speaking majority, you can see that Harvard is the more-often searched term.
Comment by Patrick — May 15, 2006 @ 9:09 am