Gothamist: Google Trends Guide to New York

Adam

Thu, 11 May 2006 12:14:58 -0500

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.

b-burg

Thu, 11 May 2006 11:54:11 -0500

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.

Charshiu

Thu, 11 May 2006 11:22:05 -0500

The blips in the hamburger line correspond with the opening and closing of Shake Shack. Coincidence? I think not. :)

gguhhhrhhr

Thu, 11 May 2006 11:06:12 -0500

Yeah on the Williamsburg, VA thing. There are plenty of people who live within NYC who have no idea there's a Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Nathan

Thu, 11 May 2006 10:57:20 -0500

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.

Nick

Thu, 11 May 2006 10:22:24 -0500

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.)

Michael

Thu, 11 May 2006 10:21:54 -0500

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

Think twice

Thu, 11 May 2006 08:18:27 -0500

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...

tien

Thu, 11 May 2006 08:07:13 -0500

the bronx is on fire!