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Google Trends for “footbag”

I though this might be of some interest to some of you. Check out Google Trends results for “footbag”. Google Trends is a new(ish) service from Google that allows people to guage the popularity of arbitrary search terms.

For those of you too lazy to click the link, here are the top 10 countries who searched for “footbag” over the past 2 and quarter years:

  1. Vilnius Lithuania
  2. Wroclaw Poland
  3. Helsinki Finland
  4. Warsaw Poland
  5. Budapest Hungary
  6. Krakow Poland
  7. Katowice Poland
  8. Bogota Colombia
  9. Frankfurt Am Main Germany
  10. Montreal Canada

Like I said: interesting :)

One Response to “Google Trends for “footbag””

  1. Eliot Piltz Says:

    Compare with hacky sack:

    http://google.com/trends?q=hacky+sack

    Top Regions:

    1. United States,
    2. New Zealand,
    3. Canada,
    4. Australia,
    5. Germany,
    6. Austria,
    7. United Kingdom,
    8. Denmark,
    9. Sweden,
    10. Netherlands.

    Top Cities:

    1. Minneapolis, MN,
    2. Portland, OR ,
    3. Chicago, IL,
    4. St Louis, MO,
    5. Denver, CO,
    6. Philadelphia, PA,
    7. Dallas, TX,
    8. Seattle, WA,
    9. San Francisco, CA,
    10. Atlanta, GA.

    (Top 10 are all US cities).

    Top Languages:

    1. English,
    2. German,
    3. Dutch,
    4. Spanish,
    5. French.

    Also interesting. Thanks for the find. Btw, what’s up with Lithuania and footbag? Is there something I don’t know about? :)