One of the little known Google tools is the Google Trends.  Surprisingly rich amount of information can be derived using this tool.

Google Trends shows the relative volume of keyword search in Google Search. You can provide a list of keywords separated by comma and then see comparative search volume over a period of time.

I started my post saying that Google Trends can give you amazing level of insight. Combined with regional information, it can give insight into social aspects of human life as well!

In my experiment, I used these keywords - peace,love,life,kindness,sex. Anyone can guess which is going to be the most searched term. There is no surprise there. Here is the Google Trends chart,

Now I did a comparison of search volume across United States and India. Here are the search volume graphs,

Noticed the huge difference? What is your conclusion? I have no comments!

Lastly I did a search for sex for all the regions. Here is the top 10 regions.

From this study, I derive the following formula,

Sex Interest = Sex Suppression * Population * Sex Co-efficient where Sex co-efficient is a universal constant. When Google gives out the actual volume figures, we will know this constant!

This entry was posted on Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 11:10 pm and is filed under Internet, Tech. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.