Ireland tops 'eurogamer' trend on Google

monument

Dublin and Ireland tops 'eurogamer' trend on Google...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=eurogamer&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

[Edited for clarity, and...]
4. How do the Cities, Regions, and Languages tabs work?

When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the same city. The city ranking you see on the page and the bar charts alongside each city name both represent this ratio. When cities' ratios are fairly close together, the corresponding bar graphs will be roughly the same length, and the exact ranking between these cities is less meaningful. etc etc...

In English, city and region bars are in proportion to other searches in such places.

So, Ireland toping the trend means there were more searches here compared to searches here for other things. It may or may not mean there was more searches here then the UK, but is highly unlikely. It’s still interesting that proportionally Ireland and Dublin tops the trends.

honru

No doubt due to the amount of talk the site gets on these here boards... and the Shinji worshippers of course.

Screaming Monkey

...and the people of Portlaoise search for porn more than anyone else in ireland

http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=IE&date=all

(it was frontpage news in one of the red-tops recently)

projectmayhem

Screaming Monkey wrote:

(it was frontpage news in one of the red-tops recently)

suuuuuuuuuuuuuure

you weren't checking to see how your searches have impacted on google

im...LOST

Never mind the Ireland eurogamer tops search on google

Thats just a cool site.Its new to me and I have used to to compare the search results for some rival products.

Cool.

Balfa

You know that's slightly misleading. The bar chart represents how many google searches from Dublin were for "eurogamer", not how many searches for "eurogamer" were from Dublin. So, taking an extreme case to prove a point, if you had only 10 google searches (for anything) from Dublin in a whole month, and 5 of them were for "eurogamer", then Dublin's bar would be huge. But if you had 10,000 total google searches from Brighton in the same month and 1,000 of those were for "eurogamer", then even though there'd be a lot more eurogamer searches from Brighton, their bar would be way smaller than Dublin's.

Hope I haven't confused too much

Retr0gamer

Balfa wrote:

You know that's slightly misleading. The bar chart represents how many google searches from Dublin were for "eurogamer", not how many searches for "eurogamer" were from Dublin. So, taking an extreme case to prove a point, if you had only 10 google searches (for anything) from Dublin in a whole month, and 5 of them were for "eurogamer", then Dublin's bar would be huge. But if you had 10,000 total google searches from Brighton in the same month and 1,000 of those were for "eurogamer", then even though there'd be a lot more eurogamer searches from Brighton, their bar would be way smaller than Dublin's.

Hope I haven't confused too much

WTF!

Cake Fiend

Balfa wrote:

Hope I haven't confused too much

I had to read that three times until I figured out what you were trying to say.

He means that it's shows the relative numbers, like a percentage, of searches. As in x percent of Dublin searches might only be 1000 searches, while the same percentage of Brighton searches might be 10,000. So, even if there were only 1000 searches for eurogamer in Dublin and 5,000 searches done in Brighton, Dublin would be higher on that chart because a higher proportion of Dublin searches were for eurogamer (in comparison to the other searches done in Dublin).

Due to the aforementioned Shinji worship:

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KdjaCL

Does that mean irish people are idiots and cant type .net?



kdjac

GrumPy

Screaming Monkey wrote:

...and the people of Portlaoise search for porn more than anyone else in ireland

http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=IE&date=all

(it was frontpage news in one of the red-tops recently)

Drogheda's second w0ot