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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 13:05
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This is pretty neat. See what cities search the most frequent for things.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=darkbasic

Bangkok with a big margin over others. I wonder if it has something to do with the Tony Jaa video game?

Check "porn", UK and Australia pretty much dominate that search. Florida squeezes in at the botttom. (buncha dirty old ppl!)

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 13:22
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"Porn", Milton Keynes, UK, thats towards me, yes we are a bunch of dirty perverts this side of the world.

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monotonic
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 14:10
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Search cheats, all results are Aus and UK, so we are cheating perverts

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Dazzag
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 14:48
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Try God. Top 10 cities are all in the US. Interestingly put in 2nd spot by Philippines by country. The UK is 7th. Yep, we will rot in hell

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 14:56
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I think if people are googling for God, they're really looking in the wrong place!

Nice find though!

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Dazzag
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GTA is surprising...

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Hawkeye
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Interesting... USA isn't even listed under sex. Oddly enough, it seems the egyptians have it goin' hot - who would have guessed?


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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 18:31
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wont say what I searched but Florida is one bunch of perverted mf'ers man. lol

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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 18:38
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=Nuclear+Missiles&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all





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Xeno, sounds like Tony Blair is keen to get his hands on some of those then

Quote: "Try God. Top 10 cities are all in the US. Interestingly put in 2nd spot by Philippines by country. The UK is 7th. Yep, we will rot in hell"


I bet trying to find him on internet was disapointing, next they've be looking for heaven on Sky TV because someone told them heaven is in the Sky...

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 01:01 Edited at: 28th Aug 2006 01:01
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I did the thing I shouldn't have done...sorry. Blue is "Dark Basic", red is "Blitz Basic"





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Gamedesign er20
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 01:09 Edited at: 28th Aug 2006 01:14
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Quote: "wont say what I searched but Florida is one bunch of perverted mf'ers man. lol "

Hey, I'm from Florida, and I've never googled anything of the such.

Plus, something that is strange, is practicly anything to do with Disney world has the highest trend in Orlando, Florida. They live not even a mile away from Disney World, and they're always googling it. That's kinda stupid.

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
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BearCDPOLD
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Heh heh. If you search "boobies" it's pretty much flatline except for a single massive spike in 2004.


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jasonhtml
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 07:45 Edited at: 28th Aug 2006 07:46
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lol, if you search 'noob' norway is at the top for some reason.. and german has a couple in there... most of them are germanic countries...

and if you search 'cookies' USA fills the whole thing except for one Canada


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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 14:14
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Quote: "most of them are germanic countries"

germany has more than 1 country? I did the search for "noob" and got 3 german cities.

I'm not gonna say what the search material was, but guys, do NOT look for a gf in Zurich, Switzerland. I've noticed that just about any sexual thing you search for, Brussels is usually in the list.

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 14:36
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Quote: "germany has more than 1 country"
Nope. "Germanic" isn't "Germany". It's more like saying the "Anglo Saxon" countries.

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 18:27
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Quote: "lol, if you search 'noob' norway is at the top for some reason."

I´ve noticed that with the word pr0n. At least we know where all the <leet speak>hackers</leet speak> are.

Quote: "I did the thing I shouldn't have done...sorry. Blue is "Dark Basic", red is "Blitz Basic"
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mmm. Worrying stuff. Have people lost interest in making games? Or have people figured out how to use that white space at the top middle?
As a side note people in Pakistan love making first person shooters.

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 18:33
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I searched Nintendo, and it seems that South and central America(Chile, Brazil, Mexico) have the majority.

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 19:22
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Trend yourself;

Seppuku - Finland, with no Japan...
Musashi - Bulgaria
Bryn - All USA, top is 'Bryn Mawr, PA, US'...

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 19:36
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i remember doing this a while ago, testing how much we truely know about the rest of the world. for example, i entered things like "islam" and "iran" and other middle eastern related things.

funny how the countries so xenophobic as to say the middle east should be blown to f*ck showed the most ignorance, in most cases not appearing at all in the top 10 countries showing interest in the subjects.

however, i did only do this in jest. I know that google isnt the only source of information about the rest of the world, i mean, there's always Fox news to learn from .

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 21:32
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I like to refer to it as "Germania"...

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 21:33
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thats because you're so like old fashioned

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 22:23 Edited at: 28th Aug 2006 22:27
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looks like hungary is the top for looking for warez.

CR, tried a search assuming what you might have put in and have to say I might have guessed it 3 florida cities in the top 10 with brisbane Aus at the top.

Dazzag, thats ok. look up Clay Aiken and you guys should be proud.

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Quote: "Bryn Mawr"
I might be a bit rusty, but I think that is Welsh for big hill. Heh, I remember in Uni telling this little dweeby english bloke that his name "Bryn" meant hill in welsh. He told me that no, it meant mountain, so his parents told him. He then looked it up, found out it was infact hill, and had a complete eppy. Left Uni shortly after that....

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Quote: "Heh, I remember in Uni telling this little dweeby english bloke that his name "Bryn" meant hill in welsh. He told me that no, it meant mountain, so his parents told him. He then looked it up, found out it was infact hill, and had a complete eppy. Left Uni shortly after that...."


I was told it was hill by my parents, then saw a welsh map with Bryn for mountain, I can see where the dweeby Bryn got the idea from, but he does sound like a bit of a dweeb, hope I'm not like that when I go to uni.

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