a few Internet search trends

I used google’s trend engine to see a few comparisons on searched terms over time:

• The word “sleep” versus “tired”. The Winner is “Sleep”
• OpenBSD versus NetBSD
• St. Thomas versus St. John
• ipv4 versus ipv6
• fire versus ice
• stress versus anxiety
• stock market versus currency market

The google trends function is pretty neat to visualize popular search terms. Here is an interesting one, where the popularity of two search terms becomes close to equal over time:

• mpls versus ipv6

Then taking a look at the how national news stories raise huge search volumes on some rather low volume key words:

• coal mine versus gold mine 

Then I just tried a few interesting comparisons:

• Myanmar versus Burma
• Ron Paul versus  Huckabee
• Freedom of speech vs. Gun-rights

And here you can see that the term ‘Apple’ is getting searched almost as much as Microsoft:

• Apple versus Microsoft

For the fun of it, I have also plotted a few semi-random terms against each other:

• Whale versus Squid
•  Web 2.0 vs. 3G
• commodore 64 vs. atari st

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