[extropy-chat] Google Trends and technology interest

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Alfio Puglisi wrote:

> 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

Actually, the data makes perfect sense. It's the newcomers that
are looking into new technologies. It's their only chance to
succeed.

Demographics also plays a role: e.g. Iran has lots of idle, frustrated
young people, some of them have Internet access.

> interpreting the graphs wrong, or their IP-location algorithms need
> some tuning.

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