Who cares the most about Skyrim? : V - Skyrim

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:34 am

No fair, the americans are all distracted by Charlie Sheen.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:32 pm

Playing around on Google Trends, I decided to see how Skyrim ranked up. Google Trends is simply a feature that looks at search terms and compares them region by region against all regions that have searched for that term. So, what you see is which places have Googled Skyrim the most. That does not truly equate with level of care, but it is a sign of greater interest among regions. There are three categories, which are Country, City, and Language. I'm going to exclude language because it's just a localization thing that doesn't matter considering Skyrim is the same in all languages. The results are interesting.

http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv175/Proditus/Skyrim-1.jpg

And there we have it. Norway is full of Elder Scrolls fans, and America doesn't seem to care as much as everyone else.

What do you all think?

I'm not too familiar with Google Trends and so am relying mostly on your explanation about what is going on here. 1 thing that is not clarified is what this graph actually represents. The Y-axis is mysteriously labeled "Search Volume Index" without explanation of what that index considers. IF your results are simply "# of searches per country" then, yes, I could see how a person could say "this country is more interested" from the graph. But IF the index considers searches per person in the country, or searches for Skyrim searches per total searches or something along those line (probable since it doesn't simply say "# of searches per country.") Then you could be using this data way out of context. Norway may have a lower number of internet savvy people and the few savvy people are very interested in Skyrim which would show many Skyrim searches / searches total while the majority of citizens are, in fact, totally uninterested in Skyrim (I know Norway is not a back woods country without internet access, just demonstrating the uncertainty) Anyways, IMO misrepresenting data is very inappropriate. Please describe what you are actually showing.

That said, this is still fairly interesting.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:25 pm

I'm not suprised that the U.S. surpassed by scandinvain countrys given the similiarites and culture not to mention fantasy being less niche over there. That and many Americans are more interested in Battlefield 3 and among other things FPS's.

Not that google hits are really a big deal, I prefer bing myself.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:11 pm

There are inherent flaws in those results. If everyone in norway uses google it will very likely skew the results. I don't use google as a search engine, and I am guessing a lot of other Americans don't either. American TES fans also have this site that is well known to go to find any new info about skyrim. I don't think I have run a search on skyrim in any search engine.

Likewise. Up until this topic was created, I was under the impression, even though I realize I was wrong now, that google got shut down. Search engines? Bah

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:51 pm

I didn't know i lived in a freakin elder scrolls commune...

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:21 pm

So its official that Canada is better then the USA at everything then.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:39 am

So? I'm hyped for Skyrim and I haven't googled the words Skyrim once

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:40 am

Apparently we Okies care a LOT about Elder Scrolls. Third highest city in Skyrim, fourth in Oblivion, and fifth in Morrowind.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:10 am

what the brown is seattle doin on there? psh.. :banghead:

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:27 am

So its official that Canada is better then the USA at everything then.

Yes!!! LOL

Toronto is 8th, go Canada!!

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:09 pm

I'm moving to Norway.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:58 pm

What am I going to Google it for? I get all of my information on it from these forums. Whenever there is a new update, there are four threads with a link to it.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:11 am

Whoever is right above me... lol

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:08 am

Man I really thought I was pumped about this game too. Wait I know!

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Ok... Ok... Just Googled it. Phew, I care again. Thanks Google!

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:24 am

We care in Washington because it’s always raining here. :thumbsup:

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:19 am

I would let someone use their tazer on me to have skyrim right now.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:31 am

Woo hoo Seattle. Yep I agree with another post. What else are we gona do when it rains 9 months out of the year, but to Play TES.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:21 am

Not really an accurate representation of who cares more, more like who uses google to search for skyrim most :shrug:
On a side note GO CANADA!!

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:27 am

I always search for |Skyrim Trailer" or "Bethesda forums." Maybe we should expand this?

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:48 pm

Go Northwest Washington! Second only to Oslo! Woot!

What about Eastern Washington :sadvaultboy: