Google Releases Search Habits Of NYC

Google Insights sent out the following items of interest (?)

The United States as a whole is more concerned with Ashley Dupre than are denizens of New York State.

Globally, the search term "New York City" is most popular in:

1. United States
2. Canada
3. Puerto Rico
4. Ireland
5. United Kingdom

In the battle of New York-based searches for the five boroughs, Brooklyn takes a commanding search lead, followed by Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island. NOTE: Brooklyn's popularity has increased steadily over the past four years -- with rises during the summer months:

Umbrella is more popular than Snow Boots in New York, but look at the seasonal shifts.

The fastest growing "food" searches of '08 in New York are:

1. red mango -- 700% increase in searches from '07 to '08
2. cooking games -- 200% increase
3. five guys -- 90% increase
4. nalgene -- 70% increase
5. lollipop -- 70% increase
6. momofuku -- 70% increase
7. buffalo wild wings -- 50% increase
8. anthony bourdain -- 50% increase

I did my own research and found that it appears that people in New York care more about Food, than they do Money, or Shelter.

In New York State, there is no interest in Tumblr outside of NYC, and in NYC itself only a small handful of people care about Tumblr, as opposed to Blogger, which everyone cares about.

Nationally and in NY State, a much larger number of people are more concerned with Harlem than the Lower East Side.

Lastly, in New York, among those who care about issues of importance, those who prefer to write checks have edged ahead of those who care enough to actually doing something.