America's Hard Drinking Cities

Forbes is out with its annual list of "America's Hard Drinking Cities". Topping the list this year is Austin, Texas. For a look at the Forbes's 15 most drunk cities in United States check out this Google Maps Mashup. For each of the 15 cities I have also provided links for

• Pubs near that city, in case folks want to bump up the city ranking for next year
• Alcohol related searches on Google since 2004 in and around that city

Related:
Alcohol Related Searches in your State. (for eg: who is searching for "Scotch" in California, New York, Michigan, Texas, Florida etc...

Here's a screen shot from - Alcohol related searches in California:

VEEPSTAKES - Who will Barack Obama and John McCain choose?

I wonder if the VP selection committee at both Obama and McCain campaigns, have made use of Google Trends to help them narrow the list of candidates.

I have put together a Google Maps Mashup of Google Trends + Possible VP Candidates which might provide some help. This mashup shows the top 10 cities in United States where the search is originating for a given candidate. This list can be filtered by date and individual US State. The mashup also shows you links to news articles which caused a spike in search.



What about folks who just don't care? Looks like folks in Syracuse, NY don't care about anything :)

What is India Googling right now?

Couple of weeks back I created Google Maps Mashps (Live Mapping) of Google Hot Trends for both India and US. You can see in this mashup, where the searches are originating from. Google Hot Trends which is "today's top 100 fastest-rising search queries", is updated hourly. Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot of location information available for United States whereas for India there is much more location information available. Here is a screen shot from Google Hot Trends (India). For United States click here.

(Related: Google Trends Historical Data (India) (United States)).

Google Trends - India

So what are folks in India Googling? There's a list for India which is updated hourly which can be found at http://www.google.co.in/trends. This must have been there for a while but I found out recently. After I found out I went about creating a Google Maps Mashup which shows the top 10 cities from India (you can drill down to the state level too) for a given keyword search along with historical data. Here it is: (You can click on the hot trends at the column on the left or type in a keyword at the input box - top left).

Related: For what the entire world is googling click here.

Who in the world is Googling - "Eight Legged Freaks"?

Auckland, New Zealand and Phoenix, AZ top the list of cities searching for "Eight Legged Freaks" on Google. Check out my latest Google Maps Mashup which shows the top 10 cities for a given keyword search on Google. You can filter the search by country and by date (from last 30 days to January 2004)



And now who in the world is thinking about sex. Delhi, India and Chennai, India lead the list.