submitted by gerg
May 11 2006 — 2:00am
Through the magic of Google (and their new Google Trends product) this question can finally be asked. Answering it isn’t so easy, Minnesota and Wisconsin battle for the lead on a monthly basis. Who finishes last is an easier question: SoDak and NoDak. And here, because you were going to do that next anyway.
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32 Reader Comments
1:14 pm
Check out the city breakdown below the Minneapolis / St. Paul search.
What’s up with Prior Lake? What do those statistics mean?
1:23 pm
I’m pretty confused by the Cities breakdown thing myself. Prior Lake was the #1 for most of the searches I was playing around with. Are a lot of network hubs located there or something? I don’t know.
Here’s what Google has to say on the matter, can anybody make any sense of it?
“When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the portion of searches for your term coming from each city, relative to all Google searches coming from the same city. The city ranking you see on the page and the bar charts alongside each city name both represent this ratio.”
1:36 pm
Well, here is a shot of optimisim for the day. I would have though it’d be the other way around, these days.
1:41 pm
United Kingdom horneyer then Americans! Again, who woulda thought.
1:42 pm
Forget about Prior Lake — now you know why they hate us — Middle Easterners aren’t getting any! Enjoy adjusting that query to add zoophilia…
1:46 pm
Well, at least good is winning over evil.
1:48 pm
Here’s a breakdown of Local Networks. FOX dominates.
1:50 pm
Well, at least good is winning over evil.
I would agree.
1:52 pm
Actually, this one is probably more accurate. I took out “FOX” because I forgot that when people type “fox” into Google, they mean a good looking woman.
2:06 pm
I’m confused. What does this mean? “Minneapolis” as a trend? Wouldn’t it actually be more useful to search a trend, thought, idea, etc. and then see what cities seem to lead in Google’s search? Isn’t that what Googld Trends means? Me confused. Me no understand.
2:09 pm
Strib vs. PiPess.
2:12 pm
Not sure how this works, but apparently I am trendier than you.
2:22 pm
I think I get it. Like, Minneapolis is big on suicide, but not so much hot dogs.
2:23 pm
yeah, i’m not sure what it all means either, but it is fun, isn’t it?
2:24 pm
wtf? Terre Haute is in Indiana…
2:29 pm
Oh. Nevermind. Terre Haute’s newspaper is the “TribStar”…
2:29 pm
…and link. duh.
2:41 pm
This is pretty much how one should be gauging what’s important from here on out.
2:53 pm
Yep.
3:08 pm
This is pretty much how one should be gauging what’s important from here on out.
Everyone knows that the Internet is very biased towards the Internet.
3:13 pm
Well, someone is catching up to sex…
3:15 pm
Yeah, but I just conducted the same search in reality, and came up with almost identical results.
3:16 pm
Well, someone is catching up to sex…
Who the hell googles Google?
3:20 pm
We’re winning!
Close race here.
Take that, City Pages!
No surprise here.
3:21 pm
A very curious librarian.
Expand the window (full screen) – the results are very different.
3:36 pm
The cartel takes the lead.
3:45 pm
Thanks Kevin. At least Shelby also has too few results to register.
3:46 pm
We’re #2 in gay marraige?
3:46 pm
We’re #2 in gay marraige?
4:02 pm
Interesting: If you search on
4:13 pm
Interesting: If you search on gopher, Minneapolis is way down at #6 on the list, with St. Peter, St. Cloud, Prior Lake, Rochester, and St. Paul coming in ahead.
4:49 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if AOL or TimeWarner has its IP based in Prior Lake. It’s why Vienna, VA. and Redmond, VA always end up on your WebTrends reports as a significant driver of web traffic.
Who knew them mountain people in the hills of Virginia were such prolific Internet users?