søndag, mai 21, 2006

How many people are searching for God and terrorism(in Google)?

I'm reading a book called The Secrets of Judas : The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel . It's about how the role of Judas in history might have been misunderstood. Interesting reading. It leads me to think about how many people are searching for the truth and searching for God. Well... it might be interesting to look at Google Trends.

Searching for God
As for Norway.. Not surprisingly, it is the people in Kristiansand and Stavanger that perform the most searches for "Gud" (the Norwegian word for God) in Google. Check out the graph

In the US, God is most popular in Cincinatti. See the graph

If you look at the word "Allah", it seems that he's most popular in Pakistan, Indonesia and Morocco. See the graph. It's interesting to see that when Israel attacked Hizb Allah positions, searches for Allah grew dramatically.

Searching for terrorism
Is it possible to use search statistics to forecast terror-attacks? Is it surprising that there are alot of people in Pakistan that search for the word terrorism. See which countries in the world search for terrorism.

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