Top 10 Los Angeles-Centric Google Searches
LAUSD, Arclight Hollywood top local year-end list
When it comes to Google searches in Los Angeles, this year's king is the Los Angeles Unified School District.
When it comes to Google searches in Los Angeles, this year's king is the Los Angeles Unified School District.
According to Google's annual year-end list, LAUSD was the No. 1 local search term. Arclight Hollywood clocked in at No. 2, followed by UCLA Library and Lakers schedule.
The list is part of the "2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist," which among other sorting, featured city-by-city analysis.
For its local lists, Google didn't just rank the terms by volume. First, it complied the most popular searches for Los Angeles -- yes, volume -- but then it ranked them based "on how unique they were to that city."
"A query is 'unique' if it is disproportionately popular in a particular city compared to the rest of the country. This method explains why popular local searches (for example, for a specific movie theatre) may appear higher than a term for which people across the country are searching (for example, for a regional sports team)," according to Google.
But it's not just about local data. For true info-addicts, Google slices, dices and graphs billions of search queries. Want to see the most searched sports stadiums? They got that. Want to see the fastest falling searches? They got that too (Sorry, John McCain).
Basically, if it can be graphed and happened in 2009, Google is on it.
The Complete Top 10
- lausd
- arclight hollywood
- ucla library
- lakers schedule
- lapl
- citrus college
- riverside superior court
- la county fair
- unemployment california
- arrowhead credit union
