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Funny facts about Takeshima/Dokdo
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:07 am    Post subject: Funny facts about Takeshima/Dokdo Reply with quote

Google trends breaks down any terms that you enter by the countries and cities where it most commonly searched.

Here's what I found (to answer the question, "Who cares?"):


http://www.google.com/trends?q=dokdo&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=takeshima&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=korea&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=japan&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=dokdo+riders&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all


But this is even funnier.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all


Oh, and I just had to know:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=kimchi&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=dave%27s+esl&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all


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hojucandy



Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

try searching beastiality

my hometown is number one!!!! Laughing
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very telling stats.
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HapKi



Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Facts about Dokdo?
I remember something about a pair of protected dogs (maybe Chindos?) that run wild on the island as mascots. One of their favorite past-times is hunting down, catching, and eating some type of cliff dwelling bird, which is also protected.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lot of people are unaware that Dokdo is where Superman's Fortress of Solitude lies, thus making it neither Korea nor Japan's land, but rather Krypton's.

Sparkles*_*
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endo



Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's one of my favorites:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Wink
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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
A lot of people are unaware that Dokdo is where Superman's Fortress of Solitude lies, thus making it neither Korea nor Japan's land, but rather Krypton's.


This is more like it for funny facts.

Did you know that Dokdo has 34 more sunny days per year than Takeshima?
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HapKi



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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Did you know that Dokdo has 34 more sunny days per year than Takeshima?


HaHaHa!!!
And did you know that Kimchi produced on Dokdo contains twice the amount of avian bird flu antedote as that produced on Takeshima?
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

endo wrote:
here's one of my favorites:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Wink


What's funnier is that Canada and the US are neck and neck, despite the huge difference in population size.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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Hosub



Joined: 17 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The hell are Dokdo riders and where did you get the idea to search for them?
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hosub wrote:
The hell are Dokdo riders and where did you get the idea to search for them?


http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/03/theyre-heeeeeeeeere/
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huffdaddy



Joined: 25 Nov 2005

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hollywoodaction wrote:
endo wrote:
here's one of my favorites:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Wink


What's funnier is that Canada and the US are neck and neck, despite the huge difference in population size.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all


Actually, it's a ratio, not absolute number.

http://www.google.com/trends/about.html#4

Quote:
4. How do the Cities, Regions, and Languages tabs work?

When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the same city. The city ranking you see on the page and the bar charts alongside each city name both represent this ratio. When cities' ratios are fairly close together, the corresponding bar graphs will be roughly the same length, and the exact ranking between these cities is less meaningful.

The Regions and Languages tabs work just like the Cities tab. Google Trends uses IP address information from our server logs to make a best guess about where queries originated. Language information is determined by the language version of the Google site on which the search was originally entered.

Keep in mind that instead of measuring overall interest in a topic, Google Trends shows users' propensity to search for that topic on Google on a relative basis. For example, just because a particular region isn't on the Top Regions list for the term "haircut" doesn't necessarily mean that people there have decided to stage a mass rebellion against society's conventions. It could be that people in that region might not use Google to find a barber, use a different term when doing their searches, or simply search for so many other topics unrelated to haircuts that searches for "haircut" make up a very small portion of the search volume from that region when compared to other regions.
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flakfizer



Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.google.com/trends?q=sexy+asians&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sexy+korean&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ohno&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
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huffdaddy



Joined: 25 Nov 2005

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesus is more popular than The Beatles!! But not as popular as s-e-x.
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.google.com/trends?q=esl+teacher&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
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