Comments on: The Google Alphabet http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/ Psychology, data, future gazing, digital marketing and the internet. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: How relevant is Bing in South Africa? http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-737 How relevant is Bing in South Africa? Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:40:59 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-737 [...] Network on “Bing vs Google” and Alex Kelleher’s post on analysing the “Google alphabet“, here’s what the two search engines have to say about South Africa. In short, [...] [...] Network on “Bing vs Google” and Alex Kelleher’s post on analysing the “Google alphabet“, here’s what the two search engines have to say about South Africa. In short, [...]

]]> By: admin http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-736 admin Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:43:42 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-736 <a href="#comment-733" rel="nofollow">@Mark Littlewood </a> Yes, it it quite time-consuming... But you seem to have even translated the chinese characters, so I can't live up to that... Have you noticed the google ad results now in the autocomplete? (try typing in 000 (i.e. three zeros) into google.com... @Mark Littlewood

Yes, it it quite time-consuming… But you seem to have even translated the chinese characters, so I can’t live up to that…

Have you noticed the google ad results now in the autocomplete? (try typing in 000 (i.e. three zeros) into google.com…

]]> By: Eileen Burbidge http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Eileen Burbidge Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:25:44 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-734 Love all of these lists, but my favorite is definitely still "What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google" http://bit.ly/7JBTQs by @danariely Professor Behavioral Economics at Duke University ;) Love all of these lists, but my favorite is definitely still “What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google” http://bit.ly/7JBTQs by @danariely Professor Behavioral Economics at Duke University ;)

]]> By: Mark Littlewood http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Mark Littlewood Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:58:03 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-733 And I thought I was a sad kid sitting in front of Newsnight typing the alphabet into Google China, India etc last night. Mr Kelleher, you have surpassed me with your thoughts of symbols. You can see the results for France, Germany, UK, China and India on this post. http://thebln.com/2010/02/around-the-world-with-google-autocomplete-google-knows-what-the-world-is-looking-for/ What seems quite astonishing to me anyway is how few global superbrands there are. It seems that only Google, Yahoo and Facebook appear as likely number one choice across all countries. There also seems to be a fair amount of differences between the kind of information people look at across countries. India seems to be strangely obsessed by cricket, the Brits by shopping and the weather. And I thought I was a sad kid sitting in front of Newsnight typing the alphabet into Google China, India etc last night. Mr Kelleher, you have surpassed me with your thoughts of symbols.

You can see the results for France, Germany, UK, China and India on this post. http://thebln.com/2010/02/around-the-world-with-google-autocomplete-google-knows-what-the-world-is-looking-for/

What seems quite astonishing to me anyway is how few global superbrands there are. It seems that only Google, Yahoo and Facebook appear as likely number one choice across all countries. There also seems to be a fair amount of differences between the kind of information people look at across countries. India seems to be strangely obsessed by cricket, the Brits by shopping and the weather.

]]> By: Thomas Powell http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Thomas Powell Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:53:48 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-732 Cool..it has changed some since we posted a similar observation http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/30/google-abcs/ last summer It would seem logical to do this daily or weekly and see how it evolves over time, might give some insight into trends. Cool..it has changed some since we posted a similar observation http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/30/google-abcs/ last summer

It would seem logical to do this daily or weekly and see how it evolves over time, might give some insight into trends.

]]> By: admin http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-731 admin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:23 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-731 Mark, Great post on your blog - happy to combine/add/etc! At first I assumed that Google did it on a pure frequency basis, but you might be right, there may well be more to the algorithm than that. Would be interesting to see the trends too. Mark,

Great post on your blog – happy to combine/add/etc!

At first I assumed that Google did it on a pure frequency basis, but you might be right, there may well be more to the algorithm than that. Would be interesting to see the trends too.

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]]> By: Mark Littlewood http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Mark Littlewood Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:35:57 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-729 Alex, Love it. Surprised how little this has been done before although there seems to be some evidence that people have had a look over the years. It made me wonder what this would look like for Google.co.uk so I did the same exercise. Seems we are obsessed with shopping, the weather and escaping from it. Social media - not so much. You can see the top three results for Google.co.uk here: http://thebln.com/2010/02/brits-obsessed-with-shopping-weather-the-google-alphabet-uk-version/ I linked to your post but didn't want to steal traffic so haven't put the two lists together side-by-side. Feel free to do so or perhaps we should put them both up on both blogs? I wonder why these names come up? I assume that they are not about natural search and that some of these organisations are paying to appear. Alex,

Love it. Surprised how little this has been done before although there seems to be some evidence that people have had a look over the years. It made me wonder what this would look like for Google.co.uk so I did the same exercise. Seems we are obsessed with shopping, the weather and escaping from it. Social media – not so much. You can see the top three results for Google.co.uk here: http://thebln.com/2010/02/brits-obsessed-with-shopping-weather-the-google-alphabet-uk-version/

I linked to your post but didn’t want to steal traffic so haven’t put the two lists together side-by-side. Feel free to do so or perhaps we should put them both up on both blogs?

I wonder why these names come up? I assume that they are not about natural search and that some of these organisations are paying to appear.

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-728 uberVU - social comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:31:12 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-728 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by MarkLittlewood: Google Alphabet - Lady Gaga & Tiger Woods the only humans to feature. Brilliant by @alexkelleher http://bit.ly/9YsOwN... Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by MarkLittlewood: Google Alphabet – Lady Gaga & Tiger Woods the only humans to feature. Brilliant by @alexkelleher http://bit.ly/9YsOwN...

]]> By: Ben G http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2010/02/09/the-google-alphabet/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Ben G Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:53:22 +0000 http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=431#comment-727 Interesting stuff, reminds me of an article I read a while back by Nate Lanxon @ cnet called "What does Google Suggest suggest about the state of humanity?" http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49304156,00.htm Quite an amusing and depressing read! BG Interesting stuff, reminds me of an article I read a while back by Nate Lanxon @ cnet called “What does Google Suggest suggest about the state of humanity?” http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49304156,00.htm Quite an amusing and depressing read! BG

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