[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[geni]

On 9/19/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Try that one:
> > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
> > >
> > > Very different results aren't they?
>
> > Different but largely useless unless you can find out how many search
> > requests come from various areas. You also have the problem that you
> > have no way of knowing which language people are looking at.
>
> Errrr. Am I understanding it completely wrong when I read (on the
> explanation from Google):
> " When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a
> sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we
> received the most searches for your first term. "
>


Look at how they are normalized.


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geni