A peek at Google searches around the globe

I've seen this before, but I hadn't seen a link to it until recently, when Google posted it to their blog. They also posted the code to add it to your own website, if you had a blog perhaps (I hope this works--if it doesn't you might not be using the right browser!). :)



This image is designed to show all the Google searches from around the world, the number of searches in each region and the number of different languages that people use to search. From Google:
"Official Google Blog: A world of curiosity: a peek at searches around the globe"
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/world-of-curiosity-peek-at-searches.html?m=1

"Today we’re sharing the Search Globe, a new visual display representing one day of Google searches around the world—visualizing the curiosity of people around the globe."

"The Search Globe visualizes searches from one day, and shows the language of the majority of queries in an area in different colors. You’ll see a bright landscape of queries across Europe, and parts of Asia for instance, but unfortunately we see many fewer searches from parts of the world lacking Internet access—and often electricity as well—like Africa. We hope that as the Internet continues to become more accessible over time and people continue to ask questions, we’ll see this globe shine brightly everywhere."