Things you probably didn’t need to know (c/o Google)
Slightly more people in Western Australia search for “icecream” as one word than anywhere else in the country.
Searches for The Ramones are concentrated in South America, and those for The Sex Pistols in eastern Europe.
Searches for “porn” are most popular in Queensland and New South Wales and least popular in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
The only three regions where “news” is a more popular search term than “porn” are the ACT, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
Australians and Britons have difficulty spelling the title of the Kama Sutra properly, while people in the US seem to be on top of it.
Victoria appears to be the state most interested in film, dominating the searches for “cinema”, “cinemas” and “movie”.
New South Wales is the only state where more people search for Germaine Greer than Andrew Bolt.
Facebook is currently searched-for more often in the ACT and NT, while MySpace dominates everywhere else.
Searches for “scrabulous” are microscopic in comparison to those for “scrabble”, in Australia and everywhere else.
There are more searches for Call Of Duty 4 than Halo 3 in Australia and the UK, most likely because it is a far superior game.
More people search for Ed Kuepper than Chris Bailey in Australia, and more people for Chris Bailey in the UK (they’re the songwriters from The Saints who had a falling out – see here).
Australia is leading the world for searches on “purple monkey dishwasher”. I’m not making this stuff up.
The Family Guy is searched for more often the The Simpsons in the US, and the other way around in Australia.
“Lyrics” was the most searched-for term in Australia in 2004, 2005 and 2006 before mysteriously dropping out of the top ten altogether
), bought more DVD’s (Weed’s Season 2, here I come!) and a flashy new Apple keyboard (unlike reguar keyboards, this one rocks…. but of course because it’s apple it costs $70!)