What the world wants …
Categories: ENGLISH, culture, literature, architecture, photography, art, humour, just for fun,... (really?), society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist
Hereunder are findings from Google trends which gives information about what the world, countries are looking for in the Google search engine. You can try Yahoo buzz as well ; but the displayed information will be quite limited… and furthermore I am boycotting Yahoo now (but that’s another story).
We will try to find, from this Google tool, clues of cultural differences and global standardization. Because there are many languages in the world, research were limited to family names (international famous people) or very international words. Bear in mind lots of languages are in different alphabets and might therefore be wrongly represented (think about the Asian, Arab and Russian countries). I had to be careful as well to avoid double meanings in other languages.
Basically, this ranking is based on a ratio between the number of search for a particular term and the total Google search by location (and languages as well). Only the highest ratio’s are featured. Figures compiled for the years 2004, 2005 & 2006.
For “Jesus“, the most interested Internet users are from : 1. Dominican Republic 2. El Salvador 3. Guatemala 4. Peru 5. Panama 6. Bolivia 7. Ecuador
Allah : 1. Pakistan 2. Morocco 3. Turkey 4. Indonesia 5. Senegal 6. Tunisia 7. Bangladesh
Wall Street : 1. United States 2. Hong Kong 3. Singapore 4. Portugal 5. Panama 6. Italy 7. Ireland
Euro : 1. Ireland 2. Portugal 3. Luxembourg 4. Italy 5. Belgium 6. Romania 7. Poland
Dollar : 1. United States 2. Canada 3. New Zealand 4. South Africa 5. Philippines 6. Ireland 7. Australia
Whisky : 1. Uruguay 2. Sweden 3. Denmark 4. United Kingdom 5. Switzerland 6. Venezuela 7. Ecuador
Vodka : 1. Bulgaria 2. Sweden 3. New Zealand 4. Estonia 5. Australia 6. United States 7. United Kingdom
sex : 1. Pakistan 2. Egypt 3. India 4. Iran 5. Turkey 6. Morocco 7. Viet Nam
Kalashnikov : 1. Bulgaria 2. Estonia 3. Serbia and Montenegro 4. Venezuela 5. Finland 6. Sweden 7. Portugal
and so on, and so on… some countries appear several times, and this is actually interesting… conclusions are yours - do not hesitate to check by yourself… this research was made in the Netherlands on a Sunday night, the day of the post. If you have made other funny discoveries, please put them in comment.
Oh my this is brilliant John and I’ve had some cultural issues on my blog, thanks for sharing more insight into these subjects that have great interest to me (my keyboard is behaving and I can type the exclamation point LOL)
my pleasure Tisha, … if there any topics u’d like me to approach, please go ahead…