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Google just released its Trends project, which allows you to graph the relative popularity of various search terms over time. To test it out, we put in a few of our favorite NYC keywords. The results are a little surprising!
Google just released its Trends project, which allows you to graph the relative popularity of various search terms over time. To test it out, we put in a few of our favorite NYC keywords. The results are a little surprising!
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the bronx is on fire!
The trendlines for Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens are like three bickering siblings all fighting for "first position". While the Bronx and Staten Island are like the Wednesday's children of the family, but watch out, it's always the quite ones...
I find this quite amusing: When you compare "breast feeding" with "foot fetish", they seem to follow the same trends, but "foot fetish" wins the entire time.....
See Below:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=breast+feeding%2C+foot+fetish&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
The problem with Williamsburg is your mixing in "Colonial Williamsburg, VA" which is a rather big place (and a big tourist location... oh wait, so's Williamsburg Brooklyn.)
The problem with the "lower east side" query is that people probably also tend to use LES or chinatown or East Village. Or they'll use actual street names, since there are less of them and their more memorable.
The issue with Pizza, Bagel, Hot Dog, and Hamburger, is people don't use the internet to look up bagel places or hot dog makers. But they need to find the number for the pizza delivery place around the corner.
Yeah on the Williamsburg, VA thing. There are plenty of people who live within NYC who have no idea there's a Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The blips in the hamburger line correspond with the opening and closing of Shake Shack. Coincidence? I think not. :)
Williamsburg figures in Williamsburg, Virginia, so that WB/LES graph isn't accurate. If there were that many hipsters, we'd have an electroclash version of the national anthem, not a Spanish one.
With the pizza vs. hamburger vs. hot dog vs. bagel ...
My experience has shown that people tend to use "burger" more when doing searches for the delectable hamburger sandwich. It's easier to type. You also have to make sure your results are filtering only U.S. or New York content whenever "hamburger" or "burger" is involved, else you'll get a lot of German search data throwing off your results.