StateStats "shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state."
The first thing I tried was [zines], which appropriately showed Oregon as having the most searches on that term, followed distantly by Washington, with New York in third with just under half as many searches.
Next up, the vanity searches, first under Eric's name and then mine. Neither of us rates in any state, alas. My fellow Jenna, does though: [Jenna Jameson] is apparently most popular in the Dakotas. Who knew? PercentElderly and VotedforBush were also near the top, which just has to do with the state demographics, not with data gathered from other searches or Google spying.
My last search, suggested by Eric, was for ["abc no rio"]. Of course New York was at the top, followed by New Jersey, and weirdly California, rather than say, Connecticut. I was amused to see the top of the Correlation ranking was Unemployment.
This whole thing is more amusing than useful, but amusing it is.
As seen on Melissa Gasparotto's Facebook update. As she put it, "knows that correlation does not imply causation; nonetheless, she can't get enough of this site."
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Chris (not verified)
Fri, 01/23/2009 - 10:18am
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That is seriously an amazing
That is seriously an amazing technology. I love how Google just continues to push search technology and make it available mostly for free.
It would be cool if they offered this service in English but displayed searches in other countries. I live in Japan right now but because I can't read Japanese I'm limited when it comes to Google Japan software.
Also in your opinion how accurate are these results? I wouldn't know but would the search term zines make sense that Oregon would be number one in the US?
Thank for pointing this application out!
Chris
Healthy Betty (not verified)
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 2:03am
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Chris, There is a way to get
Chris,
There is a way to get whatever Google you want to use to search from. For instance, you are in Japan but you want to get results from searching Google US.
First you go to Google where you are (Google Japan) and search for "free proxy United States" that will give you results listing proxy pages to use in the location you want to search from. Go to one of the proxy pages and then type in google.com and you will get the local Google page for that proxy.
Make sense? You are going to Google through the proxy page so Google thinks you are where ever the proxy is. Hope that helps a little.