[Reader-list] pornographic seach / poetry search

[inder salim]

thanks dear vivek

it must be very different and very interesting beyond what net search shows us.

it also shows how difficult it is to assess about the pattern of
living in a particular area or country,

but, we sometimes have to deal with these distortions as well, and by
furthering that pursuit can give us more insight into what is
happening,

yes, about Trinidad and Tobago, i know very little, the newspaper too
carry forward these distortions,

wondering, how opaque is the world

lot of love
is

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Vivek Narayanan <vivek at sarai.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article?id=161404633
>>
>>
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