[extropy-chat] Google Trends and technology interest

[Alfio Puglisi]

I can't make sense of it. Iran as the first nation where searches for
"neural network" are originating, and second for "nanotechnology"?
Pakistan at the top spot for "artificial intelligence"? Just how many
people have Internet access in those countries? Either I am
interpreting the graphs wrong, or their IP-location algorithms need
some tuning.

Alfio


On 5/11/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is interesting (at least to me) to note where Google Trends is indicating
> most of the queries for nanotechnology [1], artificial intelligence [2],
> molecular biology [3], human genome [4], aging [5], singularity [6] and
> neural network [7] are coming from.  It is also interesting to note when
> significant variations in the query requests (aging for example) do not seem
> to correlate well with news items.
>
> As an aside I'll also note they are trend tracking the "conversion" requests
> -- strange to consider that "miles in meters" gives quite different results
> from "miles in km".
>
> Is this "artificial intelligence" or something entirely different?
> What other trends of extropic interest can be found?
>
> Robert
>
>  1. http://www.google.com/trends?q=nanotechnology
>  2. http://www.google.com/trends?q=artificial+intelligence
>  3. http://www.google.com/trends?q=molecular+biology
>  4. http://www.google.com/trends?q=human+genome
>  5. http://www.google.com/trends?q=aging
>  6. http://www.google.com/trends?q=singularity
> 7. http://www.google.com/trends?q=neural+network
>
>
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