Posts tagged "search"
  1. 10 months ago 
    My life in Google searches. Since it’s the end of a month, I thought it’d be convenient to look through my Google search stats. The graphs here are for my past 365 days of Googling, so March 2010-11. With monthly search activity, it’s not surprising that May and Aug came out as top months since those are transition months between school and summer so it’s predictable that I would’ve had to look a lot of things up. Jun seems pretty amazing, but I was in China that entire month and Google was having some issues with the Chinese government at that time. Then the rest of the graph is fairly even, except for Feb which incidentally happened to be my most stressful time of Junior year (so far). I’m not sure if that explains the drop, perhaps most of my search queries are not school-related after all. As for daily activity, it’s a shockingly symmetrical graph. Sat and Sun are way up so I suppose more of my searches are for leisure after all. It’s also quite amazing that after a whole year, my collective Mon and Tue searches come out to be only 1 apart! Now, the hourly activity graph is the most interesting to me. It’s pretty impressive that I managed to have Google searches at every single hour of the day over the past year. You can see the drop off after 12am as that’s usually my latest bedtime, but searches go on until 4am which tends to be my breaking point between late-nights and early-mornings. Searches between 8am and 3pm are nearly all weekends and breaks since I don’t login to my Google account when I search at school. It stays high in the afternoon and then dips at 6pm for dinner. Finally, it peaks at 8, my prime time for doing things and then drops off for bedtime. Interesting, eh, how Google searches can tell your life. And this isn’t even looking at exact search queries. If I had time for that, I could probably retroactively write a diary for myself. You can check your own search trends at www.google.com/history/, so long as you’ve actually been logged in to a Google account when you do searches. For me, that’s a no-brainer since I have Gmail always open. Google probably tracks these things by IP anyway, so everyone might as well gather some interesting stats from it.

    My life in Google searches.

    Since it’s the end of a month, I thought it’d be convenient to look through my Google search stats. The graphs here are for my past 365 days of Googling, so March 2010-11.

    With monthly search activity, it’s not surprising that May and Aug came out as top months since those are transition months between school and summer so it’s predictable that I would’ve had to look a lot of things up. Jun seems pretty amazing, but I was in China that entire month and Google was having some issues with the Chinese government at that time. Then the rest of the graph is fairly even, except for Feb which incidentally happened to be my most stressful time of Junior year (so far). I’m not sure if that explains the drop, perhaps most of my search queries are not school-related after all.

    As for daily activity, it’s a shockingly symmetrical graph. Sat and Sun are way up so I suppose more of my searches are for leisure after all. It’s also quite amazing that after a whole year, my collective Mon and Tue searches come out to be only 1 apart!

    Now, the hourly activity graph is the most interesting to me. It’s pretty impressive that I managed to have Google searches at every single hour of the day over the past year. You can see the drop off after 12am as that’s usually my latest bedtime, but searches go on until 4am which tends to be my breaking point between late-nights and early-mornings. Searches between 8am and 3pm are nearly all weekends and breaks since I don’t login to my Google account when I search at school. It stays high in the afternoon and then dips at 6pm for dinner. Finally, it peaks at 8, my prime time for doing things and then drops off for bedtime. Interesting, eh, how Google searches can tell your life. And this isn’t even looking at exact search queries. If I had time for that, I could probably retroactively write a diary for myself.

    You can check your own search trends at www.google.com/history/, so long as you’ve actually been logged in to a Google account when you do searches. For me, that’s a no-brainer since I have Gmail always open. Google probably tracks these things by IP anyway, so everyone might as well gather some interesting stats from it.

     
  2. Notes: 1 / 11 months ago 
    For the first time, Google is not asking if I meant "andrew numbers" when I do a search of my standard username 'andrewnonumbers'.

    I guess that means my name’s finally out there enough! 57,700 times apparently, though half of those are probably Tumblr reblogs and the other half content farms stealing my content. At least that helps my SEO! In fact, the top result for ‘andrewnonumbers’ is my Tumblr see.ndrw.me even though the string ‘andrewnonumbers’ is mentioned nowhere on it. I say that’s some pretty strong SEO.

    /Risking lost followers posting about this unhip geek stuff

  3. 1 year ago 
    I had no idea Google could do reverse lyrics search, especially when I got the lyrics completely wrong. -.-

    I had no idea Google could do reverse lyrics search, especially when I got the lyrics completely wrong. -.-

     
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