i don't want to know why

[rone]

... but it seems that the Finns really need to find goatse.

ALSO: i am surprised to see rum far outpace sodomy and the lash.

Comments

[marknau.livejournal.com]

Especially in Januaries of even-numbered years.

Frikkin pagans.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I think they were looking for Christmas gifs.

[khrister.livejournal.com]

"Rum" is the Swedish word for room, that would explain Stockholms high placement. It's a valid word in some other languages as well, at least Turkish.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Way to suck the fun out of it, pal. Still, you'd think "sodomy" would be much more popular...

Norwegians and Swedes, on the other hand [FNARR],

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

need both bukkake and kaviar. (http://www.google.com/trends?q=goatse,bukkake,kaviar&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all)

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

If you narrow the goatse trend down to Finland, you'll see that tongodeon visited there in the latter part of October 2004.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Finland seems to rank highly on the list for any infrequent word. I think it's an artifact of whatever algorithm they're using.

It appears

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

that they take the top 10 ranked by raw volume, and then order those 10 by normalized volume. It's not clear whether the results are normalized for the number of searches or the number of terms searched. If Finns typically use more terms per search than other countries, that would inflate both the raw count and a normalization by number of searches.

Actually, it's not so clear that I've interpreted how they choose the top 10 correctly. I'd expect the boroughs of NYC to dwarf local searches for Dutchess and Ulster Counties. (http://google.com/trends?q=ulster+county%2Cdutchess&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all)

The normalization becomes particularly evident

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

in a search for boroughs of NYC. (http://google.com/trends?q=manhattan%2Cbronx%2Cqueens%2Cbrooklyn%2Cstaten+island&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all) Notice the first and third results. "Manhattan, United States," indeed!

[vatine]

Just checked with a Finnish-speaker and (contrary to my expectation) "goatse" is NOT a Finnish word. It must be the ".cx" that throws them...

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

ok the comments about this?

Especially the one where someone thought it was suomi.

Wow.

Ok now, for what really happens: Finns LOVE to find disgusting things and show them to each other.
This isn't that shocking. I mean, in my office, my boss regularly plays 'a lapdance is always better if the stripper is crying' and never changes it when one of the girls needs to talk to him.
And we've got Lordi going for Eurovision this year.
Finns LOVE playing the 'out-disgust' game. Because they don't really get disgusted, they just stop loading (:

Now, the rules:
If you're on irc or chatting with someone Finnish, and they paste you a url?

DO

NOT

CLICK.