[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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