Google Trend Decides

Google trends is possibly the least used feature among the millions that Google now has. It also happens to be the one that I find the most humor in using. It compares the total hits of up to five search items. This can easily be used to decide battles, such as that which is the main focus of this blog: Architecture versus Dinosaurs.

But I decided to utilize my other three search item spots and chose some all-stars from each group: T-Rex, Frank Gehry, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Also, I limited it to the last 12 month period, since around 2005 FLW had a spike which put his data twenty times above that of the next competitor; kudos Mr. Wright, 2005 seemed to have been your year, but it's throwing off my data, so...

The Results...

Architecture Wins

On a relative scale compared to the most popular result:

Architecture (Light Blue) 1.00

Dinosaur (Red) 0.40

T-Rex (Orange) 0.08

Frank Lloyd Wright (Green) 0.06

Frank Gehry (Purple) 0.02

The almost illegible graph Google gives us:

A decisive win for architecture, and an embarrassing loss for dinosaurs, although it is notable that the most popular dinosaur, the t-rex, had 40% more hits than FLW, and 350% more than Frank Gehry. Sorry Mr. Gehry, but your time has come and passed and you're already less popular than a extinct over-sized reptile from 65-68 million years ago, and you're not even dead yet.

RAWR: 1, chitecture: 1

All tied up...