<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d5974596\x26blogName\x3dWhy?\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLACK\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://gamindu.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_US\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://gamindu.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d8079249296247105828', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe", messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, messageHandlers: { 'blogger-ping': function() {} } }); } }); </script>

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Google Zeitgeist

Hardly a post goes by, in forge's, without me having to google something; this time it was Zeitgeist(pronounced 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt). If you don't know what that is, google define: it... Go on.

Google Zeitgeist was what the wind blew in, on this occasion.'Search patterns, trends and surprises according to Google' is how it's described. What an amazing position google finds itself in - Data Mining Central. Google user search behavior apart, you get to draw entertaining conclusions. For example,

People are more interested in finding out where they are than in finding the meaning of a word.(Factoid, October 2004 , What reference tools were most searched for?).

Dragons are on the verge of ousting dogs from the position of mans best friend(Factoid October 2004, Which animals were most popular?)

There is also, the completely inexplicable; Britney Spears turns out to be the most popular celebrity searched for, on Image Search.

urped by gumz @ 9:50 AM

© gumz 2005 - Powered for Blogger by Blogger Templates

Powered by Blogger