[Reader-list] pornographic seach / poetry search

[Vivek Narayanan]

Hmm, this is interesting; I'm sure there are all kinds of hidden 
mitigating factors, and somewhere like China probably doesn't show up 
anywhere because people are not searching in English, but still.

I looked up google searches for "poetry" and it turns out Pakistan is 
no.1 by a large margin:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=poetry&cmpt=q

(ah, I could have guessed it, those mushy, sentimental Pakistanis!)... 
with the US a very distant second.  What is also interesting is that 
worldwide interest in poetry declines very sharply in tandem with the 
plunging stock market!

However, when the search is repeated for "poem", neither Pakistan nor 
the US show up in the top ten and the list is headed instead by the 
Philippines and Myanmar:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=poem&cmpt=q

... with the hopeful caveat that interest in poems does not decline as 
sharply with stock market crises as interest in poetry.

Anyway, does this mean that in Pakistan there is a greater sense of 
poetry as a continual process, while those in Myanmar and the 
Philippines are more invested in individual poems as objects ???!

Vivek

inder salim wrote:
> pornographic search on net, look who is the leader? where is
> Bangladesh , and why ?  News from Trinidad and Tobago
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> http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article?id=161404633
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