[extropy-chat] Google Trends and technology interest

[BillK]

On 5/11/06, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> And "Bayes" gives wholly different results from "Bayesian".  I suspect
> the data.
>

There is discussion about this on the google forum.
<http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Trends>

The reason is that there are a really small volume of searches for
these tech terms.
Much smaller and the system would refuse to draw a graph.

As Google doesn't provide a scale or volume numbers, one user
suggested doing a comparison to get an idea of the volume.

Quote:
The following search terms range from the most popular to quite low.
They are also terms that are relatively constant over time.  Use any of
these along with yoru own term to get a relative idea of the scale.

5 Sex
4 Madonna
3 Hastings
2 Tarzan
1 Pentecostal
End quote.


If you compare nanotechnology with sex, the nano graph disappears!   :)
But nanotechnology is slightly more popular than pentecostal.  :)


BillK