I discovered an interesting pattern while playing around with Google Trends: if you我发现一个有趣的格局，而在打左右，与Google趋势：如果你 compare比较 ‘Yale University’ and ‘Harvard University’ with the tool, there is an eerie similarity in their trend lines. '耶鲁大学'和'哈佛大学'与工具，有一个阴森的相似性，在他们的趋势线。 Even minor up and down ticks are mirrored across search terms.即使是轻微的上升和下降蜱镜像跨越搜索条件。 See for yourself: trends chart below, Harvard in red, Yale in blue.亲身体验：趋势图表所示，在哈佛红，耶鲁大学为蓝色。

The trend is clearer for Google search data, but there are still some pretty strange similarities for the news references (below the main chart).趋势是清晰的Google搜寻资料，但还存在一些相当奇怪的相似之处，为新闻参考资料（下面主要见图） 。 I understand that every time one school does something, the other feels compelled to respond, but the fact that these trends link together so closely is very interesting.据我所知，每次一所学校做了，其他认为必须作出回应，但事实上，这些趋势联系起来，如此紧密，是很有趣。 My first question was whether much of this might just be seasonal–fluctuations in the course of the admissions cycle.我的第一个问题是，是否这在很大程度上可能只是季节波动，在这个过程中的招生周期。 To test this, I compared Yale with a few other schools, trying to eliminate large sports schools as a factor.为了对此进行测试，我比较耶鲁大学与其他几个学校，试图消除大型体育学校作为一个考虑因素。 Georgetown vs. Yale乔治敦大学与耶鲁大学 produced fairly similar results to Yale v. Harvard, but not with the same level of overlap.产生相当类似的结果，以美国耶鲁，哈佛诉，但不能与同级别的重叠。

Years ago I did this same comparison with几年前，我这样做相同的比较 Phillips Exeter Academy vs. Philips Andover Academy菲利普埃克塞特学院与飞利浦andover学院 (interestingly, historically they were once prominent feeder schools for Harvard and Yale, respectively) but the results there were not numerous enough to show any significant overlap; the numbers there were probably inflated by vanity searches from the students at either school. （有趣的是，在历史上一度被突出的直属学校，哈佛和耶鲁，分别） ，但结果也没有众多足以显示任何显着的重叠;人数有可能膨胀了虚荣心搜查，从学生购买学校。

Other interesting trends to take from this data: search volume for both of these terms has declined continually over the years, relatively speaking.其他有趣的趋势，以采取从这个数据：搜索量为这两项条款已不断下降，在过去多年，但相对而言。 Why is this?这是为什么呢？ Is it because people are better able to use the school sites and don’t do as much searching, or is it because of a methodological feature whereby their search volume stays stable but relative to other terms decreases?是它，因为人们能够更好地利用学校用地，并没有这样多的搜寻，还是因为具有方法论特征，即他们的搜索量保持稳定，但相对其他条款的跌幅？ It’s not clear, but it’s an interesting trend all the same.然而，现在尚不清楚，但是这是一个有趣的趋势都一样。

International attention is something else to compare.国际上的重视是另一回事，比较。 If all the queries came from Australian applicants, hypothetically, that would shift things in the calendar because of their different school cycles.如果所有的疑问来自澳洲申请人，可以想象，那将会改变事物在日历，因为它们不同的学校周期。 But more realistically, it’s just an interesting reflection of foreign interest.但更确切地，这只是一个有趣的反映外商的兴趣。 Harvard predictably comes out ahead, but check out these countries which are ranked by how much people are searching for Yale (Harvard comparison):哈佛料做出来的未来，但看看这些国家都是排名多少人正在寻找耶鲁大学（美国哈佛大学比较） ：

Google lets us get even more precise, though: down to city level. Google公司可以让我们得到更精确的，虽然：到县市一级。 This is really interesting because we see the rate at which Yale students search for themselves compared to how much Harvard students search for things about Yale.这真是有趣，因为我们看到的速度在耶鲁学生寻找自己的比较，有多少哈佛学生寻找东西，大约耶鲁大学。 If we then compare this to那么，如果比较这 another chart另一个图 , showing how often Harvard searches for Harvard, we see that Yale–via New Haven–doesn’t even make the top ten. ，显示如何往往哈佛寻找哈佛，我们看到雅礼途经新天堂-不工作，甚至使十强。 In other words, Harvard is by some measures more interested in Yale than Yale is in Harvard.或者换句话说，美国哈佛大学，是由一些措施，更热衷于耶鲁比耶鲁，是在哈佛。 Inferiority complex much?自卑情结多少？ : ) (Yes, I realize this is methodologically flawed… just joking). ： ） （是的，我明白这是在方法上的缺陷…只是开玩笑） 。

Finally, we can compare the international chart with a language chart.最后，我们可以比较一下国际图同一种语言的图表。 English is first, then Chinese, then, surprisingly enough, Italian.英语是第一，那么中国人，那么，足够令人惊讶，意大利语。

Very interesting for a few minutes googling!非常有趣几分钟MSN Search进行了搜索！ I highly recommend playing around with google trends and exploring interesting things about your own favorite words, or trends, or schools.我高度推荐玩弄与Google趋势，并探讨有趣的事情，你自己最喜欢的话，还是趋势，或学校。 Dogs and Puppies beat Cats and Kittens, etc. Have fun, and don’t draw too many sweeping statistical conclusions : )狗和小狗打猫和小猫等，有乐趣，也不要太多席卷统计结论： ）