Friday, March 2, 2012

Googling Around

I search many things on the net. Trying to find a hit for old parts or answers to technical questions from customers often brings up some very strange results. I came across a Ted talk about data visualization which had me thinking. I searched both "i love you' and "i hate you" wide open on the net, just in Canada, just in French-Russian and Arabic. Then added the total hits for each and came up with a percentage of total hits.

wide open on the net
the term "i love you" returns 559,000,000 responses or 92.5%
while "i hate you" finds only 45,300,000 or 7.5%

searching the same in Canada
 "love" gets 3,830,000 hits or 92.09%
"hate" gets 329,000 hits 7.91%
we are pretty average

search in French
"love" 56,000.000 hits or 98.21%
"hate" 1,020,000 hits or 1.79%
oh those French

in Russian
"love" 16,400.000 hits or 78.28%
"hate" 4,550,000 hits or 21.72%
hmmm...

finally in Arabic
"love" 51,000,000 or 99.82%
"hate" 90,800 or 0.18%
surprised?

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