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Post October 27th, 2010, 9:43 am

According to Google Trends, the number of people searching for stuff has been in a steady decline since at least 2004. Meanwhile, the amount of stuff in the news has been on a steady rise. Currently, New Zealand searches for stuff about three times as much as any other country. City-wise, Auckland and North Shore, both in New Zealand, lead the world in terms of how much stuff they look for. Most people looking for stuff are doing so in English, followed by Swedish.
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Post October 27th, 2010, 9:51 am

leave it to Joebert to find that kind of stuff.
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Post October 27th, 2010, 10:03 am

Searching for things seems to be more popular than searching for stuff.
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Post October 27th, 2010, 11:05 am

Did you know that things and stuff translated to Dutch, the second most popular language for people to search for things, is "dingen en dingen" ?
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Post October 27th, 2010, 11:19 am

Oh, you guys mean searching for the word 'stuff' and 'thing'? :lol:
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Post November 8th, 2010, 4:24 pm

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Did you know that things and stuff translated to Dutch, the second most popular language for people to search for things, is "dingen en dingen" ?

wait, dutch or swedish? second most popular search language, I mean.
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Post November 8th, 2010, 4:39 pm

It would appear that today there are more people searching for things in Swedish than stuff in Dutch.
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Post November 8th, 2010, 4:45 pm

so it changes day to day? they must be neck and neck then.

funny I'd imagine it would be something like indian or chinese, seeing as how widely it's spoken. Or spanish. But I guess all of those cover huge swathes of people who live in poor conditions with no internet access. In sweden and holland every household has an average of 4.7 internet-ready computers I bet :D

Interesting though about the number of searches going down. What could that be attributed to. Are we getting tired of playing with search engines and typing in random stuff? Has the novelty worn off and have we started only searching for stuff we actually need? Are our areas of interest shrinking? Is it becoming easier to find things and thus we take fewer searches to get to the results we need?
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Post November 8th, 2010, 4:48 pm

I have read this topic several times now and i still have no idea what you are all on about :hmm:
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Post November 8th, 2010, 4:51 pm

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I have read this topic several times now and i still have no idea what you are all on about :hmm:

I think this goes to your credit really :D
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Post November 8th, 2010, 5:00 pm

Ah, but French appears to be better for finding distractions and if you're wondering who is looking for busy people that would be Tagalog which in case you're wondering, is spoken in the Philippines.
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Post November 8th, 2010, 5:28 pm

that is so random and strange :D

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Post November 8th, 2010, 9:25 pm

When you have 3 younger siblings asking you questions all of the time, randomness begins to come naturally. They figure that out quick too, so it has to at least make some sense.

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People seem to look for what's right 11x as often as people are looking for what's left. However, there's 48x more people looking for a lefty than there are looking for a righty.
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Post November 8th, 2010, 9:37 pm

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People seem to look for what's right 11x as often as people are looking for what's left. However, there's 48x more people looking for a lefty than there are looking for a righty.

That might be because "right" has two definitions... the direction, and a synonym to "correct" while "righty" only means right handed. Also, I think it's a bit more rare to be left-handed then to be a right-handed, so searching for left-handed is search more often... kinda makes sense.

[EDIT] Unless you meant people are searching for "what's right" over "what's left".
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Post November 10th, 2010, 2:40 pm

You guys have WWWAAAAYYYY too much time on your hands :lol:
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