Land Geist

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LandGeist has been measured for the following keywords. You can click them to see the result. Add a comment or drop me a line if you would like something to be added:

Coffee and tea
by Richard Osinga
Would be fun to compare coffee and tea maps, to sea in which part of the world people drink coffe and where they drink tea.
A lot of other food stuff could be fun at a more basic level: Rosti (in Switzerland they talk of the Rosti border roughly running between the French and the German speaking cantons), or Couscous for North Africa, where you would have Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria red, Egypt a lot greener and Libya somehwere in between (the Couscous border runs somewhere halfway between Tripoli and Beghazi).

Oil
by Zack
I'm just curious to see what would happen if a search was done on Oil.

sex & iraq
by chaizzilla
i'm guessing the sex & iraq couplet is either from people using iraq as a keyword to get their site indexed or from a lot of bloggers writing about both sex and iraq?

dictators
by rydel.net

dictators
by rydel.net
How about measuring the words "dictator" or "dictatorship"? I guess that would show interesting results.

Goth
by Däch
I'd like to see which world countries have the most active Goth music scenes, or least active.

Free search
by Pyro
Now, I don't exactly know how this works, but what if we could just put something in like a search bar. Would that take a lllloooonnngg time to process?

Corruption
by Mark
Can you include corruption? I'm hoping Italy will be top :)

Adjectives
by Komsip
Hi I love your toys. Now I wonder if you could make it search for adjectives too. So that iraqi would be as good as Iraq, swedish as good as Sweden.

sex
by jago25_98
Love to see the results for sex seporately, and related words

Vegetarian
by Adey
I would like a view on interest in Vegetarianism. This would be fantastic as even within Europe we have the very different attitudes to animals - with the English having really high rates and not eating meat is almost unknown amongst French nationals.

comment_12
by xuxu
what about love?

spam
by Jenq-Haur Wang
What about spam?
e-mail spam, Netnews spam, or the "SPAM" vs. ham...

request
by another visitor
i've seen an overlay of the states- one was the recent tornadoes, the other were presidential election results by county.

water link
by hguh
the water link isn't working at all-I must've tried 25 times at least.

Another word you could use is 'smoking' or 'tobacco'.

suggestion
by guest
What about irony?

Rights & Responsibility
by B*Rad
Freedom vs. Safety
War vs Peace
Power and Money vs Culture and Happiness

Cool but....
by Dave
I like it allot it reminds me of the "State of the world atlas" where the countries where scaled to their relative weight for different factors (debt, gdp, strife, divorce, etc)

If I understand correctly your counting pages where the the target term and the country name appear. Thats cool but it would also be cool to be able to target that countries websites. e.g. how many Japanese sites are their about fish compared to Swiss sites. Google lets you do site:.ca to restrict results to pages from a country domain only. Since some countries have less internet penetration you could weight the results to compensate. (if you had a list of % internet enabled by country or something like that, maybe the UN?)

Sure it wouldn't compensate for Italian sites that happen to be .com but still might be fun. Oh! wait it's no good, I doubt there are many US sites that are not .com so they would be severally underweighted.

Just trying to think of a way to measure what "countries" are thinking/talking about rather then what countries are most refered to with the target term.

Hmm maybe langauges instead of country domains ??

Oh well thanks for shareing this cool project.

Technical problems?
by Molly
The pictures are mostly not corresponding to the links. For example, I click on Oil and get Water. I have seen Malaria, Rice, and Internet far too many times. 'Tis a very interesting concept. Could you fix so we can see the results?

Geek Girl Search
by João Pio
how about adding geek girl search?

very cool
by Ralf
This is very cool.
Can I please get the source code??

countries
by bluemonkey
i would be a funny to see some countries in there
like scotland

letter to The Lancet?
by Larissa
Your project may be worth a letter to The Lancet, a leading medical journal.
What about scores for immunizations, perinatal mortality, infant and child mortality, diarrhea, other infectious diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Chagas disease, certain drugs and alcoholic drinks and morbidity and mortality caused?

culture
by nicolas
could you try with "art" or "culture" ? please ? :-)

beer?
by rubinsky
hey there,

how about beer as a keyword? interested what would manage to get on top at that list..

How about "Privacy"
by gever
I would like to see the geist on "Privacy" if you get a chance to update the keywords.

P.S. really enjoying poking around on your site, I've practically wasted my whole lunch break on it.

Yeah
by Ben
FRANCE THE HOTTEST !

Piracy
by chx
How about piracy or warez as a keyword?

hot chicks
by j
duh

drugs
by j
yep

Murder
by

Peaceroom
by neutroll
I'm interested in examining the word Peace.

It is a method to understand philosophy and policy of most peaceful countries.

I'd like to cross reference weather statistics with geopolitical issues and discover means to provide peaceful solutions to all conflict.

ALSO interested in providing database of general solutions broken into categories.

Policy maker comes to tool with some data about their home country and the tool provides solutions based upon relevance along with senser/sat data/images to substantiate the present. Locals more willing to cooperate when a large degree of certainty exists.

Better yet, ability to link implemented solution makers with emerging issues in country for prompt solution building internationally.

It would be served to UN and used for 'conflict avoidance'.

Winner world cup football 2006
by Marc
Next year everybody is into the championship in Germany. Therefore, I'm interested in the possible winner of the world championship 2006 in Germany. I think it would be nice to use this tool...maybe with a monthly update....
Would be nice! Thanks already!

comment_34
by Ace
Um... what about "porn" to show which country the horniest nation?

--==Ace==--

Linux and Open Source
by ZX9John
Be interesting to see just how widespread open source interest really is.

Ipod
by

drugs
by sterlingTjones
some words:
drugs
suicide
hate
hypocrisy
fat
cancer
happy
infection

english
by twim
why do you assume other countries are using english? most countries aren't english speaking you know...

Censorship
by Dan
I'd love to see a Land Geist map for the keyword "censorship". I'm assuming China would appear very high in the top-ten, although I'd be interested to see if that is actually the case.

comment_41
by gj
What about "literacy"

Beer Wine Vodka
by Dimitri
I have heard that there is a wine belt, a beer belt and a vodka belt ( geographically running south to north) I wonder if that would be apparent on this map?

Torture
by
But can you include Guantanamo Bay?

crime
by darn'it
This would be interesting parallel to see which countries report about crime alot and how it corresponds to the actual crime rate...

how about...
by yoyo
innovation
frontiers
protests
celebration (or celebrate)

Sex + Iraq
by Anonymous
I looked up "sex in Iraq", and read your page. I just wanted to answer your question. I looked it up because I wondered if there were any satistics on female soldiers being redeployed from Iraq due to pregnancies. I am a female who fought in Iraq during OIF I. During that one it wasn't so bad because everybody was scared as hell, and now I don't think it's that bad because there was so many during OIF II, so they are stricter on sex there. Personally the unit I was in was "Zero Tolerence", on sex and we were a pretty focused group anyway. But with more amenities, and better living conditions that soon changed. I was disgusted because females were purposely getting pregnant to return to their homebases. In one brigade which I won't name, during a 1 year period, at least 20 females returned due to pregnancies. Not to mention that the policy told to soldiers by that command was, "If your're single it's okay". That makes the mission harder on your fellow soldiers who are focused on why they are there.

Enough ranting. I just thought to myself that like a lot of things in the government, that I bet this was kept very quiet, and there's probably not a record of the number of females during the war who were redeployed due to pregnancy. I was right.

comment_60
by
awesome, but what about religions?
Jewish
Budhist (spelling?)
Muslim
etc

comment_55
by

depression and suicide
by js
would be interesting to see...

Great Hack
by florian
Hey, is there a chance to get your code?

Gay
by RDM
I want to see the word "gay". I'm very curious to see if it's high in countries where gays are visible and relatively free (e.g., Netherlands, US), or where they are persecuted (e.g., Iran).

Or would this get conflated with all the porno sites?
Maybe a idfferent word, like homosexual, or homosexuality, or same-sex.....

keywords/lj intrests
by _Three_chord_me
how about doing some of the top words that are used as interests on livejournal.com?
they publish a list of what interests are the most popular and such other things like that....

neutral ?
by _Three_chord_me
what is the neutral zone?

Interesting, but inaccurate
by tr
Interesting concept, but not very accurate. The world's poorest country, Niger, is not even listed in the top 10 poverty index.

A problem...
by Zarano
There is a problem with this method of searching, if they are talking about it negitivley (s?). If, for example, a lot of pages were saying something like: "You cannot get good internet access in the Seychelles"

Also, it would be good if there was some sort of search box.

Crime
by
Great site

Soccer?
by Charlie
How about "Soccer"?

comment_56
by
i request "science"

LOVE
by kerem
seconded

love
by petrePics
love tripled

es do love