…something. On Google, that is. But for what? And who is doing all this searching, and from where?
- Of course, Canada is practically the only country searching for Tim Hortons, and also first place in Hockey. Predictable.
- Seems Americans are all searching for things like Bush and Iraq and things (#1 ranking country for all those words).
- Countries obviously searching for “something” more than “nothing”: United States, Australia.
- Countries obviously searching for “nothing” more than “something”: Sweden, Belgium, Finland, India.
- Countries pretty evenly split on that whole “something” versus “nothing” thing: Philippines, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom.
- Country most searching for love: Philippines, by far.
- Countries most searching for war: Australia, New Zealand, United States.
- Almost everyone searches for women more than men. Interestingly, the country that searches waaaay more for women than for men is Iran.
- The Spanish cities that search most for Montreal: Zaragoza, Santiago de Compostela, then Leon and Barcelona more or less tied.
- The Canadian cities that search most for Barcelona: Etobicoke (go figure!), Richmond Hill (also in the greater Toronto area), Vancouver.
- Worldwide, the top four cities searching for the meaning of life are from Australia (and #5 is from New Zealand!). What makes those southern hemisphereans so pensive and introspective? The top Canadian city came in at #6, and was… Calgary? (when they’re not busy searching for William Shatner, something at which they’re world leaders). Do you mean to tell me that Montrealers are not in that list of navel-gazing big-picture-seekers? Okay, no, I see — we’re apparently too busy searching (along with folks from Brussels and Amsterdam) for different kinds of pictures… Good grief! Then again, you need to be careful with the interpretation, and put these relative numbers into perspective.
Searching is good wholesome fun.
[Search factoids courtesy of Google Trends.]