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Post number 18355

Mwongozi — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:30:43 -0800

Google Zeitgeist now breaks down stats by country (Scroll down.) Most gaining search term in France: "Britney Spears" Zut alors!

By: hitsman

hitsman — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:56:54 -0800

Yahoo! did the same thing with its Buzz Index recently.

By: straight

straight — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:15:06 -0800

Makes tIrEd/WiReD look like phrenology.

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:23:57 -0800

The love parade was only number six? For shame! Any MeFi'tes who have been to Berlin during the Love Parade knows that it should be number one.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:48:58 -0800

when did the add browser statistics? I sent them an email suggesting that a while ago and would like to think that I am solely responsible

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:18:35 -0800

Most gaining search term in all countries : Britney Spears (i have no data to back up these probable claims)

By: luser

luser — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:38:34 -0800

Zut alors! I finally understand that Zappa album title. That's right, American! And proud of it!

By: holycola

holycola — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:57:27 -0800

Isn't France often worried about the degradation of its culture, especially in the face of American culture? Seems that French culture's worst enemy right now is what French people want to know about.

By: mblandi

mblandi — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:14:19 -0800

Is IE 6 that good or is it because it comes on new machines?

By: eatitlive

eatitlive — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:11:46 -0800

IE 6 is like IE 5.5 on creatine.

By: XiBe

XiBe — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:18:55 -0800

Holycola: yes we are. Our musical culture is getting worse and worse, with all these dance/r'n'b acts copied on the latest americain/english trademarks. Yuk. Luckily, some good artists remain...

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:36:51 -0800

What were all the British searching "big brother" for?

By: selton

selton — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:29:49 -0800

yhbc big brother is a TV show, reality TV. kinda like survivor I think without the vegitation... I'm talking from ignorance (as per usual) cos I've never seen either of them.

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:04:30 -0800

Big Brother UK 3

By: holloway

holloway — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:19:56 -0800

> What were all the British searching "big brother" for? They lock 20 people in a house with two-way mirrors and record their every move. Record them taking a shower, in the toilet, having spas, and sleeping. Each week the house-mates vote on who they don't like among them (the girl who left the milk out over night, for example) and the 3 most disliked are put up for public eviction on a 0900 number. The housemates have no TV, no interw3b, no radio, and no newspapers. After a month they're bored out of their mind. They run around and make faces at the few cameras that they can see. They crave feedback. They have fights out of boredom. Occasionally the show's management prod the dozy tenants by reducing their weekly food budget, or by making them put on a talent show where a big bloke lip-syncs to Kylie. It's interesting and irritating because of the intimate conversions. (though every country has it's own tweaks - the brit one had a wall down the middle to seperate the rich and the poor, apparently)

By: jaden

jaden — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:36:21 -0800

I must say that the measly 1% of Linux users is rather disheartening. I guess it's good to get a full percentage point, but are there really so few Linux users?

By: dg

dg — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:03:42 -0800

holloway - we have a version here as well (the second series has just finished). Not only do they take away TV etc, but tobacco is also banned, which makes the first week or so interesting. In the local version, they are given challenges to earn their weekly food budget. The first series was mildly interesting for novelty value if nothing else, but the second series didn't rate a look from me.

By: Lionfire

Lionfire — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:10:40 -0800

Only some countres appear, and Australia doesn't seem worth including. In fact, we don't even get a local google engine; google.com.au is owned by "Google Web Hosting", which really isn't very useful...

By: dg

dg — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:29:07 -0800

Lionfire, I noticed that too and wondered why someone went to the trouble of satisfying the requirements of a .au domain name to "reserve" google.com.au. I can only guess that they are waiting for Google to offer them squillions to relinquish the name. Fat chance.