X-Message-Number: 29521 From: Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:22:50 EDT Subject: Google trend site and cryonics In a message dated 5/23/2007 4:03:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, writes: I just discovered Google Trends and checked it out for cryonics. It is based on the volume of searches on Google and allows you to "compare the world's interest in your favorite topics." If this is a reliable indicator, then cryonics is way more popular in the Philippines right now than in any other country, followed by Australia, Canada, United States, India, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, France, and Germany. Even for languages, English is a distant second to Tagalog when it comes to cryonics searches. For individual cities, however, Phoenix is at the top, followed by Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, New York, London, Amsterdam, Orlando, and Birmingham, UK. So why all this interest from the Philippines? Are they also signing up? You can try it yourself at http://www.google.com/trends Rate This Message: _http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29520_ (http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29520) (End copying, Rudi Hoffman writing) Thanks for pointing this interesting site out, Eivind! It is remarkable. One can correlate spikes in interest to news articles...although the correlation is not perfect. I have to wonder about a few anomalous and counterintuitive elements of the data.... It strikes me as extremely unlikely, for instance, that more folks doing cryonics searches are doing this in the language of Tagalog than English! LOL... (BTW, I could be wrong...I often am. But I have written the actual funding mechanism for 83% of the WORLD market share in cryonics for folks who actually sign up...and not of one of these spoke Tagalog to my knowledge. Nor were ANY of them from the Philippines...) Anyway, yet another wonder of modern technology to marvel about...and waste...oops, I mean invest...a huge amount of time exploring. We may not have jet packs, flying cars, or reversible cryosuspensions...but we DO have a science fiction technology called the internet and Google! Rudi PS...Just returned from TREMENDOUS Suspended Animation conference in South Florida. Hopefully someone will report a bit about this on cryonet. Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU ChFC Board Member Financial Planning Association fpafla.org Board Member Salvation Army salvationarmy.org Member Alcor Life Extension Foundation alcor.org Certified Financial Planner(TM) CFP Board of Standards Member Libertarian Party libertarianparty.org Member National Rifle Association nra.org Member World Transhumanist Association http://transhumanism.org/ World's Leading Cryonics Insurance Provider rudihoffman.com ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29521