Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

[tag]Google Trends[/tag] is a relatively new tool. Launched in May 2006 it gives insight in what people all over the world are searching for. Not in absolute numbers but by using graphs to show a trend.

Google Trends

In their own words:

Google Trends analyzes a portion of [tag]Google[/tag] web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results — our search-volume graph — plotted on a linear scale.

[tag]Google Trends China[/tag]

On July 31 Google added [tag]Trends in Chinese[/tag]. It is a fun tool to compare the popularity of keywords (There is a maximum of 5 keywords). In how far search data have been chinatized I don’t know as I haven’t tried comparing such terms.

In the version with worldwide searches there is graph that shows the number of times a topic appeared in Google News stories. This isn’t working yet for non-English headlines.

The most popular city in [tag]China[/tag], search-wise

I compared searches for [tag]Shanghai[/tag], [tag]Beijing[/tag], [tag]Guangzhou[/tag], [tag]Shenzhen[/tag] and [tag]Chengdu[/tag] done from within China in [tag]Chinese[/tag].

The winner is .. Shanghai. But you probably already knew that if you read the [tag]Chinese[/tag]. And no, this is not scientific research so it may be I should have included other cities.

Sources:

Via Google Blogoscoped

Google Trends in Chinese – Cities compared

Google Trends in Chinese Translated – Cities compares