Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what?

Google Trends statistics show which countries are the top searchers for certain keywords. Italy, for example, is No. 1 for "Viagra."

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[comunicado]

Interesting Factoids -- Skewed Results

Some words -- like "car bomb" -- are clearly English. So it's no wonder they rank highest in Australia, Canada and the U.S. It would be interesting to see the number of times "car bomb" was searched for in Hebrew or Spanish.

These rankings must be interpreted in context, considering several factors: (1) language/alphabet, (2) each country's access to Internet (rankings will be higher in areas where greater portions of the population are connected), and (3) statistical representation taking into account the number of times a term was searched for in relation to the percentage of that country's connected population as well as the availability of online texts in that native language (and then compare results among countries on a relative scale).

[Jim Harmon]

Clearly English

[i]Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's most frequent searchers for Web sites using the keyword "sex" on Google search engines, according to statistics provided by Google.[/i]

Apparently language was taken into account - unless "sex" is the word used in Egypt and Turkey (I suppose this is quite possible in India).

[LikaLaruku]

I'm noticing a complete lack of asian countries. I'm pretty sure Japan is both the horniest & most romantic country in the world, seing as they have at least 3 words for love (not including rabu-rabu) & a minimum of 7 words for porn.