December 12, 2009

Google Trends

Google trends tracks the number of times a certain word or phrase has been searched on Google and compiles the data on a graph.  Here is what the google-machine came up with for the word Jerry.


Not incredibly interesting but if you search terms like "end of the world" you find interesting results: there are suspicious spikes in the number of times that the phrase is searched in 2008 and 2009.

Uselessly,
PB

1 comment:

Mary Sexton said...

What is John Sercer doing? I was thinking of him because my shoes assumed a Sercer-like state that made my mother cry out in horror. If I were better at algebra, I could express it mathematically: as one moves from male to female, the chances that one's shoes will be allowed to become this horrible get lower; but as one moves from richer to poorer they get higher. Apparently I was at the right combination of female but also both impoverished and cheap.
But seriously where is Sercer?