Blog Rankings for Indian Cities.
Curiousity, as is always the case, led me to the Google Blog Search page and this expermiment followed. If you care to repeat it, do remember that you'll get slightly different numbers and if you use the Google India portal, you'll get very different numbers.
Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad
Repeating this with Technorati showed pretty much the same.
Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad
But using the Google India portal makes for a very interesting set of numbers, far closer than the above data would suggest.
Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai
Any ideas why?
12 comments:
Erm, sorry to be intruding on what is truly techno-geek territory, but aren't these the results from searches you're doing for the terms Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad?
Okay, so I don't really know what my point was. But then I don't really get yours either. So.
Yup, terms only. For people who mention their location in their profile, the ranks are as follows:
Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Calcutta
Point? On a blog called "doesthisthat"?
How can you be so certain that it's the location mentioned in their profiles only? It could be blogs that use the terms, then.
Your results might mean Indian blogs refer to Indian cities more often, leading to the numbers being so close. Yes?
That this.
Well, I did use an inaccurate method of analysis, but I'm safe from having included mentions of cities in blogposts and only using ones that show up in their profiles in my count.
Easy really, the blogs are on Blogspot.com while the profiles are on Blogger.com.
Unfortunately, I've only looked at the blogs and their writers hosted on Blogger/Blogspot.
Sorry but for those of us who truly belong in the techno-geek territory, can you please tell us what you did, how you did and why you did? ok, forget the why!
What are your conclusions?
http://tinyurl.com/j5a74
So on and so forth.
Why do the number of results fluctuate so widely?
Conclusions? Delhi & Mumbai feature more often in blogposts across the world simply by virture of being the "Big Two" in India.
Within India, Bangalore narrows the gap. It is the Geek Capital, after all.
Using the last set of data, we have the most blogs even if they all may no be active. To repeat, we are Geek Capital and evidently have lots of people who have tried it but then abandoned it.
What do you think?
Ignore that link and try this:
http://snipurl.com/ubxf
So are you tlking about blog POSTS or blogs themselves? Make up your mind dudde.
My POST was ws specific to mentions of the cities in blog posts.
My comment, above, was about the blogs themself. Or, at any rate, the bloggers who write.
internet penetration as per IRS 2006 round 1.
Delhi
Chennai
Mumbai
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Kolkota
and personal opinion on the coolness of cities
Bangalore
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Kolkota
Chennai
Delhi
My two bits...man this is a stupid post!
It is. No matter, tomorrow we'll have something less mind-candy-like...
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