Argh. The first thing that page did when I opened it on my work-mandated Internet Explorer was crash the 6 IE windows I had open. posted by Pontius Pilate at 6:12 PM on May 10, 2006
I just checked in it IE and it works for me okay. Sorry about that, not that I coded it, but browser crashes drive me insane. posted by blacklite at 6:14 PM on May 10, 2006
Here's an interesting one. Note the city order at the bottom. Portland, austin, etc.... posted by anthill at 6:16 PM on May 10, 2006
I tried some others, everichon, but it turns out that boingboing is the only similar site we're in relatively direct competition with, if you can call it that. posted by blacklite at 6:24 PM on May 10, 2006
The hangover one is amusing if you zoom in to a specific month. You can see the weekends. Okay, I'll be quiet now. posted by blacklite at 6:26 PM on May 10, 2006
Heh, it's funny to see emacs steadily decreasing over time like that. It's almost like people realize that it's the bloated stuck-in-the-past piece of shit that it really is. (oops, did I say that out loud?) posted by Rhomboid at 6:30 PM on May 10, 2006
Haha, the finland <> goatse connection is startling - and disturbing. What's with the Finns? Is it seasonally related? posted by anthill at 6:38 PM on May 10, 2006
They use the same kind of graph + news stories engine in their finance pages. Very clever to use it here too. posted by smackfu at 6:39 PM on May 10, 2006
I can't tell if this is significant or not. posted by lekvar at 7:29 PM on May 10, 2006
I was only surprised by this because all of the top cities are in the U.S. (would've thought eastern Europe/Asia). posted by Bixby23 at 7:30 PM on May 10, 2006
Strange how animal sex searches peak at the end of every month.
I don't know if I really want to open this topic any more than you already have, but uh, what you're actually looking at is weeks. Animal sex searches peak every Saturday, from that chart. posted by blacklite at 7:49 PM on May 10, 2006
Yikes. "How to" searches are a wealth of humanity. posted by 6am at 8:08 PM on May 10, 2006
Chicago always seems to be at the top of the depressing ones. posted by blacklite at 8:09 PM on May 10, 2006
Excuse me ... Indonesia never even wonders about Web 2.0, but Malaysia does. I guess it's just Kuala Lumpur which is in the digital dark age. posted by krinklyfig at 8:09 PM on May 10, 2006
Ahh - turns out I'm a discotheque in Bratislava. They have 'illegal night'. I am so there.
Thanks blacklite - I did not realise how badly I needed to know this. Hooray! posted by Sparx at 8:12 PM on May 10, 2006
This is funny, more for the news results than for the actual stats. anal, vaginal NSFW if someone is reading over your shoulder. posted by Grod at 8:26 PM on May 10, 2006
"portobello mushroom" is rather redundant. Most people I would know would just search for portobello which works fine. posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 8:58 PM on May 10, 2006
oh man, I was busy last November. I completely missed the attack of the unidentifiable mushrooms. Thanks, imposster. posted by blacklite at 10:34 PM on May 10, 2006
I was only surprised by this because all of the top cities are in the U.S. (would've thought eastern Europe/Asia).
People don't need to search for google. Think about it. posted by delmoi at 10:36 PM on May 10, 2006
People apparently only use math during the school year. posted by epugachev at 11:18 PM on May 10, 2006
Also, since it's finals time. (at least in the US)
If you do "cliff notes" instead of "cliffs notes," (the "s" does belong there according to Wiki) the two lines match up better. Note that in 2004, CN was ahead of SN, but in 05 SN pulled ahead. A new era? posted by epugachev at 1:49 AM on May 11, 2006
on my fifth (unsuccessful due to low results) search for common oceanographic systems i got:
" We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google. " posted by 3.2.3 at 1:21 PM on May 11, 2006
On most of the above links, I'm now getting:
We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.
Looks like this meme blowed up. posted by intermod at 1:25 PM on May 11, 2006
Also, it's working for me now, so maybe it was just an intermittent problem that you guys experienced earlier today. posted by blacklite at 8:39 PM on May 11, 2006
Interesting. Sometimes at work, I get that Google message about computer virus or spyware. But in my case, I always get a CAPTCHA to prove I'm human. posted by smackfu at 8:42 PM on May 11, 2006
One thing I wished they add is the scale. Does not have to be too accurate, but would you want to know whether what you are looking at is 100s, 100s, millions? posted by psq at 12:39 AM on May 22, 2006
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