[TxMt] Google Trends

[Peter Cowan]

After looking at trends for some random phrases the Philippines shows
up at the top quite often.

<http://www.google.com/trends?q=math%2C+school&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all>
<http://www.google.com/trends?q=nose%2C+ear&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all>

Peter

On 5/11/06, Jeffrey Robert Spies <jspies at nd.edu> 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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