[FRIAM] Google Trends - plus an unexpected(?) result

[Robert Holmes]

Google now offer a product called Google Trends (
http://www.google.com/trends) which aggregates peoples' searches by city,
region etc. It's been described as "a place holder for the intentions of
humankind — a massive database of desires, needs, wants, and likes that can
be discovered, subpoenaed, archived, tracked, and exploited to all sorts of
ends." (From the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/business/05leonhardt.html?ex=1152763200&en=94404589c34afe7e&ei=5070&emc=eta1
)

Anyway, just for fun I type in LANL. The "Cities" tab gives the expected
results:
1. *Los Alamos*, NM, USA
   2. *Livermore*, CA, USA
   3. *Santa Fe*, NM, USA
   4. *Oak Ridge*, TN, USA
   5. *Albuquerque*, NM, USA

The "Regions" tab is altogether more intriguing.
1. *Iran*
   2. *United States*
   3. *India*



Time to call our friends at Homeland Security?

Robert
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