In its craziness to exploit data, Google released their latest invention: http://correlate.googlelabs.com/. I have been using it on the last 2 days and it gives funny results.

Google Trends was simple: it was just giving you various trends on various queries. When you wanted to find a link between 2 queries, it was a long test of trial and errors.

Google Correlate is more than that and truly FASCINATING. Imagine you have a time serie (your customers complain, sales, the papers released on a particular subject, the network failure etc...). You enter your own time serie and Google Correlate will correlate it with a number of search on Google. It is as well possible to type a simple Google query or to draw a curve.

Now, time for experiment and what it suggest:
Type freedom, strongest correlation: "american flag" followed by "in war"
Type god and see the "parasite" words we are getting: "by", "in the", "height of"... It seems people have no clear ideas about god...
Type "mango" and you will have a beautiful mathematic curve correlating with "racerback", "sleeping pad" and "sleeveless"... Why ? No bloody idea...
Finally, please explain me why "Austria" correlate with "Chinese calligraphy" and "hungary" with "reproduction" ?

I will not give you answer but type: Oblivion then try Fallout. You will see what is interesting the most the players.

Nota: although hungarian women are really beautiful, I speak by experience...

Interesting find.

Too advanced for me. I don't understand it. I'm dumb.

I like this, very interesting :goodjob:

What does it say about Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim?

This is very interesting to experiment with. Thanks for the link.

Because Austria and Hungary where one country before WWI? No idea about the others...