Is Poker Trending up or down??? Cool graph for geeks

[Merek007]

This is not SPAM...just me being a geek.
Not sure if you have seen Google Trends. You can search and see the frequency of searchs on a topic. Poker searchs are still trending up suprisingly, but like all stats it is hard to seperate the BS. Searchs during the WSOP are way down this year. Interesting that Denmark, Sweden and Canada top the list of searchers.

With all the comments on the state of poker and what it will become, I found this interesting. News stories regarding poker are also still trending up. Hum? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

I tried to copy the graph but could not get a readable image, maybe someone else can get a decent shot.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=poker

[BennyMac]

It's even more interesting when you break it down by country. Looks like a downward trend in U.S., but up elsewhere.

[AudioPhile84]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=poker...all&sort=0

There's one for Pokerstars that shows a very nice, steady increase over the last 3 years. Also it shows that PS seems to be very popular in Germany. I was wondering why PS was running German exclusive tourneys.

[PartysOver]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=poker+sta...=ytd&sort=0

[RobTheDuck]

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It's even more interesting when you break it down by country. Looks like a downward trend in U.S., but up elsewhere.

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This is not surprising to me at all. I wouldn't be surprised (alhtough I would be annoyed) if in a few years, major sites' MTT schedules were oriented more for European time zones.

[aplunk]

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It's even more interesting when you break it down by country. Looks like a downward trend in U.S., but up elsewhere.

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This is not surprising to me at all. I wouldn't be surprised (although I would be over the fcnukig moon ) if in a few years, major sites' MTT schedules were oriented more for European time zones.

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