Google search results

[Erik Malmsten]

Google recently announced the top searches of the year. But I found that I could also Explore chess searches.

Top region =100 is 1. Armenia, 2. Norway 93, 3. Serbia 66, 4. Sri Lanka 65, 5. Macedonia 64, 6. Phillippines 60 ... 21. Canada 33, 22. USA 33...

Canada region: Ontario=100, Nfld 95, New Brunswick 92, Manitoba 90, BC 90, Alberta 89, Nova Scotia 82. . .

Ontario region: Markham=100, Windsor 97, St. Catharines 90, Richmond Hill 87, Oakville 78, Vaughan 77, Kitchener 74, Guelph 74, Brampton 74, Mississauga 72, Ottawa 71, Waterloo 69, Hamilton 67, Toronto 66, London 66.

Ontario top related queries: chess online=100, play chess 45, chess game 35, chess board 30, chess games 30, free chess 20, chess pieces 20, play chess online 15, chess moves 10, chess kids 10, how to play chess 10, chess setup 10, chess openings 10, chess rules 10, Chinese chess 10.

Ontario related queries Rising: us ch, Aurora CC, is chess a sport, lichess, cool math games, chess puzzles, next chess move, chess results, chess tactics, chess 24, chess kids, checkers, play chess online.

Congrats for the interest in Aurora!

Canada top related topics: chess game=100, then a big drop to chess piece 5, Playchess, chessboard, board game, etc.

Canada related topics Rising: four dimensional space, diagonal, shogi, chess - Musical, History of chess, Chess 2 -the Sequel, Lego chess, chess.com, gambit, chess boxing, fide.

World top related queries: online chess, game chess 85, play chess 60, chess board 45, chess results 40, chess games 40, chess set 35, chess free 30, chess pieces 30, chess computer 25,
chess download 20, king chess 20, live chess 20, chess rules 15, chess moves 15, how to play chess 15, chess club 15, play chess online 15,
chess queen 10, chess news 10, chess pie 10, online chess game 10, chess setup 10, chess rating 10, download chess game 10.

Any website selling chess equipment needs to have the words from these main searches all over their first page if they hope to capture search traffic.

World related queries Rising: tata steel, us chess ch, world cup, Norway, grenke, world ch, coolmath, London classic, Kristianstad, coolmath, chess results.ind, world cup, cool math games, isle of man, 4d chess, 4 player chess, chess games vs computer, chess results.com, chess results.arg, tic tac toe.

The big tournaments get traffic, but not as much as basic searches. Time to get me some chess pie.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Google censorship

It may be a good idea to use other search engines as well. Google has been exposed as deciding what people get to see in their searches. Basically, this is a kind of editorial control but without any oversight.

Biased search results could affect all sorts of things, including election results, for example. Google seems to want to have it both ways; to pass themselves off as "objective" while acting as unseen editors. Robert Epstein, in Science magazine recently noted ...

"Google pretends to be the public library, but it isn't. Public libraries don't… track people [and] they don't sell the history of your book borrowing to other companies. They simply help you find stuff. That's what we need. We need to take Google's search engine and make it public."

Recently, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, told a session at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada "We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites — it's basically RT and Sputnik."

Why? Because Russia. And it looks like the Russians may just retaliate ... their media regulator Roskomnadzor is investigating.