Singular Movement
String Base Identity: megaupload
Index |
Current Snapshot |
| 724,000,000 | |
| Yahoo | 165,000,000 |
| Bing | 168,000,000 |
Plural Movement
Plural String Identity: megauploads
Index |
Current Snapshot |
| 917,000 | |
| Yahoo | 277,000 |
| Bing | 264,000 |
3 Index Snapshots (3IS)
Irregular Snapshot schedule
This snapshot was taken January 25, 2012 at approximately 2:24 a.m.
From this starting point, the following collection points have been gathered for further trend analysis:
MUM SEIS January 26, 2012 at approximately 11:39 a.m.
MUM SEIS January 26, 2012 at approximately 3:03 p.m.
MUM SEIS January 26, 2012 at approximately 11:07 p.m.
Well, as of this particular moment, MegaUploads Mania (or MUM) is certainly conjuring up an overswell of storm fronts from some of the more expected sources: freedom of speech advocates, lawyers, creators of all shapes and kinds (authors, musicians, painters, cinematographers, photographers, etc.), career and rookie political demonstrators, just to name a few.
Just as trends can be tracked using end-user search data displaying top strings searched based on popularity, the trend to fight over rankings with any string derivative can be traced back towards the total number of pages currently indexed in a search engine at any given moment.
For example, let's say you wanted to compete for Top 100 status with a particular string. You would need to know how many pages are already being recognized by a specific search engine and you would need to keep an eye on this number over a period of time. And while some spikes in the page counts can be fairly easily associated with an event of some kind, other variances have no clear point of initial outbreak.
Which is why it seemed so appropriate to center my initial post around the MegaUploads event unfolding across the world. It is possible to suggest excessive fanfare and hype acting as the current motivating element causing this popularity outbreak...but only as a hypothesis. Without a series of samplings of the page counts to work from, this method of viewing string derivative trends is incapable of showing movement in any direction.
Therefore, here is my first check of two separate MUM derivatives, one singular and one the plural of the singular: megaupload and megauploads.
As you'll be able to note for yourself, there's a big numbers difference between the megaupload with the letter "s" at the end and the megaupload without the extension.