I was talking with Rumi and learned some interesting data of the most popular queries at web search engines of each country in 2004. You can check it at Google Zeitgeist. What caught my attention was the data of Canada's most popular queries. No.1 was 犬夜叉（Inuyasha), a Japanese cartoon. You can tell from the fact that the second place was "family guy," the list seems to reflect the tendency of a specific age-range that uses the web search engines most frequently. The stats results of some other countries (including China, Korea, Australia etc), which are occupied by names of idols and pop singers, also show the same tendency. In contrast, the data of some countries like Japan (No.1 is map, No.2 winny, No.3 wallpaper) and UK (No.1 BBC news, No.2 big brother, No.3 cbbc) is rather boring but shows a wider age-range of users. I don't understand many foreign languages, but some entries look a little funny to me. For example, No.2 of Brazil "hello kitty" (Wow. didn't know it was that popular in Brazil) No.9 of France "humour" (why do you search "humour"?). I also did not know what the "winny" (No.2 of Japan) was (well, I've been away from Japan for many years now...). It seems major websites on the winny thing were all closed down by now. It is a software for peer-to-peer file exchange, and many people (including a professor of a prominent university) were arrested for infringement of intellectual property according to Michi's explanation.
Posted by sayaka at February 9, 2005 01:02 AM | TrackBack