Where does your city rank?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:30 pm

Fun with Google Trends...

I note that my town is No. 1 for poison oak:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=poison+oak

...and that Peasanton, CA is the top-ranking US city for dandruff:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=dandruff ... l&date=all

and San Francisco tops the list for food poisoning:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=food+poi ... l&date=all

And Apex, NC tops the list for fire ants:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=fire+ant ... S&date=all

and Tucson edges out NYC for cockroaches:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=cockroac ... S&date=all

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:38 pm

Seems to work;

Lisbon, Portugal (where I met my American wife) is #1 in tubas!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:30 pm

Chicago leads the world in intonation. London is most flat, while San Diego is most sharp.

Guess where all the violists and violinists are!?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:42 pm

Anyone care to explain why Zagreb, Croatia leads, by a wide margin, the interest in "Star Trek"?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:47 pm

Well, attending all those conventions in the US sure beats whatever the heck is going on at home!

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:53 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:Anyone care to explain why Zagreb, Croatia leads, by a wide margin, the interest in "Star Trek"?

Just a guess after reading the Wikipedia entry on Zagreb:

Zagreb hosts a festival for animated films every year. I'd suspect that a lot of folks who like to make animated films (and watch them) also like Star Trek. Also, the ranking is based on the ratio of specific searches to total searches, and given that there is both an animated film festival and a major research university in the city I'd bet that that ratio is pretty high compared to, say, Metro Atlanta, where most people search for dorn.

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windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:55 pm

Then again, the top 5 dorn sites are all in the UK!

bort · Post by **bort** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:46 pm

http://www.google.com/trends?q=baltimor ... l&date=all

Looks like Baltimore ranks #2 in my search for "Baltimore."

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:11 pm

Three out of the top 4 cities interested in cheap Viagra are in Italy... the 4th is Moscow!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=cheap+vi ... l&date=all

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:30 pm

And the results for "stupidity"

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:05 pm

St. Louis ranks number one in "Drunken"
Albany is the most Stoned
London England is most Tonedeaf

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:56 pm

Fairhope, Alabama is famous for having the first high school students to get high from eating those Cillicybin mushrooms that grow up out of cow plop.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:26 am

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is the largest Vietnamese speaking city in the world (duh!): 6,000,000

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:47 pm

knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.

I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:04 pm

Bill Bell=

Cincinnati, Ottawa, and Toronto!?

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:29 am

TubaRay wrote:
knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.
I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.

Perhaps the town (or is it a city?) of Humble, just north of Houston on your way to Kingwood?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:59 am

I live between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. They're both pretty rank.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:16 pm

sc_curtis wrote:
TubaRay wrote:
knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.
I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.
Perhaps the town (or is it a city?) of Humble, just north of Houston on your way to Kingwood?

Next thing you know, you'll bring in Spicewood or Sugarland. Oh, well....

tubaguy9 · Post by **tubaguy9** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:53 pm

Philadelphia, PA, USA leads in nothing...

My town isn't even in the running of searching the city name...

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:57 pm

tubaguy9 wrote:Philadelphia, PA, USA leads in nothing...
My town isn't even in the running of searching the city name...

This is not necessarily a bad thing.

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