[TxMt] Google Trends

[Jeffrey Robert Spies]

And from that same link:

"The Philippines is now the texting capital of the world. Meryll  
Lynch reports that for the first quarter of 2001 there were  
approximately 7.2 million cellphone subscribers in the Philippines:  
2.9 million (40.6%) of them were held by Globe, 3.4 million (48.5%)  
by Smart Communications and 788,000 (10.9%) by Pilipinas Telephone  
Corp. (Smart's sister company). For this period, the average SMS  
transmission was about 65.4 million a day. In 2002 Nokia estimates  
that there are around 10 million cellphones in the Philippines,  
transmitting about 100 million text messages a day. While the  
absolute number of cellphones is not large by international  
standards, the number of text messages sent by subscribers is double  
the world average."

Ahh, google fun.

Jeff.

On May 11, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey Robert Spies wrote:

> After some google investigation:
>
> "Textmate" seems to be a term used for the person you text-message  
> with (see http://www.finlandembassy.ph/texting6.htm).  There are  
> forums in the Philippines where you can meet a "textmate" to chat  
> with.
>
> Jeff.
>
> On May 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
>> On 11/5/2006, at 18:18, Trevor Harmon wrote:
>>
>>>> The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph
>>> I am still wondering about the Philippines connection. Do you get  
>>> a lot of sales from the Philippines?
>>
>> I don’t have any geographical breakdown, as I don’t record the  
>> origin country of each sale.
>>
>> The overrepresentation of Philippines is strange, and would imply  
>> the tainting of the phrase, or maybe just rather weak data for  
>> Google’s breakdown.
>>
>> It is also puzzling that Denmark and Sweden each have twice as  
>> many searches as the US, when each country host around five  
>> million people, and half my sales are from the US [1].
>>
>> Of course Denmark could be because I am from Denmark, but AFAIK no  
>> “local” media has mentioned TextMate here.
>>
>> [1] I know that because the US transaction fee is lower.
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