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wendigo100 replied

22 May 2006, 12:23
I used to live near St Albans and I'd say Google got it spot on, for them at least.

Don't know about everywhere else though, especially Birmingham, reported on here recently as the biggest Google porn surfers of the world. That was probably a result of Alexei's SKA.
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xoggoth replied

22 May 2006, 11:36
It has seemed to me before that one gets a different list depending on where you search from but I thought it was just senility setting in.
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22 May 2006, 08:21
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...interesting. There was a suitably crappy article in the Sunday Times yesterday about which cities searched on which items. I think St Albans came out top for a certain category as did Liverpool.

However, looking at 'How it works' on google.com, it seems to me that it just picks up the IP address and works out where that originated from in order to present this data. If I recall correctly, BT have their main exchange in St Albans (if you are with BT Broadband and you do a whois search on your IP address it lists St Albans in the data).

So doesn't this make Google Trends a load of bowlarks? All we are getting is a list of which searches are popular according to which ISP they use rather than where the search actually originated?

Or am I talking crap?
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