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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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? ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe blogged about a recent article on search engines and invasive species here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.purplecow.co.za/blog/uncategorized/felis-catus-or-the-search-for-the-domestic-cat