...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?
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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