Comments on: What the World Writes about Thailand https://www.gregtodiffer.com/what-the-world-writes-about-thailand/ Stories, rants & observations about expat life in Asia's craziest city Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: dbkk101 https://www.gregtodiffer.com/what-the-world-writes-about-thailand/#comment-502 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:34:48 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=171#comment-502 NGram tool is case sensitive. "Bangkok" or "Thailand" give proper results, while "thailand" or "bangkok" return how many careless misspellings appeared in print or online.

Also, in the English corpus, it's more fair to compare Bangkok to Asian cities (e.g. Tokyo, Seoul or Peking/Beijing) than to Paris or London.

]]> By: Greg https://www.gregtodiffer.com/what-the-world-writes-about-thailand/#comment-501 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:38:19 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=171#comment-501 Serene, you're in a better position than I to analyze this sort of thing, seeing as you're way smarter than me. 😛
Justin, thanks, that's an interesting graph. If nothing else, Google has somehow figured out how to take raw, boring statistical data and make it un-boring.

]]> By: Justin https://www.gregtodiffer.com/what-the-world-writes-about-thailand/#comment-500 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:05:55 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=171#comment-500 Another interesting graph from google is here :

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=TH&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1231406281773&ced=1292659200000

It shows that internet usage really drops off in Thailand on Songkran and New Year, which is a different profile to most countries. Maybe its because Thai actually spend time with their families on the Holidays, or maybe everyone is just to drunk to google 🙂

Another interesting graph is usage of Google Translate from Thailand

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=TH&l=TRANSLATE&csd=1230796800000&ced=1292659200000

It really peeks around the RedShirt protests, I presume because were suddenly more curious/worried about the image of the country …

]]> By: Serene https://www.gregtodiffer.com/what-the-world-writes-about-thailand/#comment-499 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:42:58 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=171#comment-499 Interesting. Also note English-language context with regards to US/UK-centric (?) sources. What is and what isn't represented in google's digital library?

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