Searching the internets...
- Invasive species: 1,880,000 hits in Google Search (an 18% decrease since February 2007, continuing the downward trend)
- News stories about invasive species: 1307
- Images tagged with invasive species in Google Images: 97,300
- Journal articles and books tagged with invasive species from Google Scholar: 237,000
- Books tagged with invasive species: 2088
- Patents tagged with "invasive species" (strict search): 27, including several related to ballast water management and these cool plant-cutting shears that simultaneously apply herbicide as you cut!
- Top 5 searches that led people to the ISW over the past 30 days:
- invasive species (boring, I know, but we're in the top ten results!)
- purple loosestrife
- Japanese knotweed
- bittersweet (Hmm..a seeming plant trend here, but could some of those folks been looking for chocolate?)
- neon green iguanas (No, I don't know why "neon" is so important either!)
- Top geographic location of visitors to the ISW over the past 30 days: Washington state, USA.
- Most popular post over the past 30 days: New and Notable.
3 comments:
An 18% decrease? People must be asleep since invasive species are everywhere. Even I must admit I never thought of Pike as being an invasive species as they are in California.
I suspect much of the decrease is due to Google tweaking itself. Given the tendency of web pages to linger long after abandonment, I would expect the number to continue to go up over time indefinitely, with a reduction in the rate of growth indicating a drop in interest. But what do I know? ;-)
We blogged about a recent article on search engines and invasive species here:
http://www.purplecow.co.za/blog/uncategorized/felis-catus-or-the-search-for-the-domestic-cat
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