I discovered an interesting pattern while playing around with Google Trends: if you我發現一個有趣的格局，而在打左右，與Google趨勢：如果你 compare比較 ‘Yale University’ and ‘Harvard University’ with the tool, there is an eerie similarity in their trend lines. '耶魯大學'和'哈佛大學'與工具，有一個陰森的相似性，在他們的趨勢線。 Even minor up and down ticks are mirrored across search terms.即使是輕微的上升和下降蜱鏡像跨越搜索條件。 See for yourself: trends chart below, Harvard in red, Yale in blue.親身體驗：趨勢圖表所示，在哈佛紅，耶魯大學為藍色。

The trend is clearer for Google search data, but there are still some pretty strange similarities for the news references (below the main chart).趨勢是清晰的Google搜尋資料，但還存在一些相當奇怪的相似之處，為新聞參考資料（下面主要見圖） 。 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.據我所知，每次一所學校做了，其他認為必須作出回應，但事實上，這些趨勢聯繫起來，如此緊密，是很有趣。 My first question was whether much of this might just be seasonal–fluctuations in the course of the admissions cycle.我的第一個問題是，是否這在很大程度上可能只是季節波動，在這個過程中的招生週期。 To test this, I compared Yale with a few other schools, trying to eliminate large sports schools as a factor.為了對此進行測試，我比較耶魯大學與其他幾個學校，試圖消除大型體育學校作為一個考慮因素。 Georgetown vs. Yale喬治敦大學與耶魯大學 produced fairly similar results to Yale v. Harvard, but not with the same level of overlap.產生相當類似的結果，以美國耶魯，哈佛訴，但不能與同級別的重疊。

Years ago I did this same comparison with幾年前，我這樣做相同的比較 Phillips Exeter Academy vs. Philips Andover Academy菲利普埃克塞特學院與飛利浦andover學院 (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，在歷史上一度被突出的直屬學校，哈佛和耶魯，分別） ，但結果也沒有眾多足以顯示任何顯著的重疊;人數有可能膨脹了虛榮心搜查，從學生購買學校。

Other interesting trends to take from this data: search volume for both of these terms has declined continually over the years, relatively speaking.其他有趣的趨勢，以採取從這個數據：搜索量為這兩項條款已不斷下降，在過去多年，但相對而言。 Why is this?這是為什麼呢？ 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，因為人們能夠更好地利用學校用地，並沒有這樣多的搜尋，還是因為具有方法論特徵，即他們的搜索量保持穩定，但相對其他條款的跌幅？ It’s not clear, but it’s an interesting trend all the same.然而，現在尚不清楚，但是這是一個有趣的趨勢都一樣。

International attention is something else to compare.國際上的重視是另一回事，比較。 If all the queries came from Australian applicants, hypothetically, that would shift things in the calendar because of their different school cycles.如果所有的疑問來自澳洲申請人，可以想像，那將會改變事物在日曆，因為它們不同的學校週期。 But more realistically, it’s just an interesting reflection of foreign interest.但更確切地，這只是一個有趣的反映外商的興趣。 Harvard predictably comes out ahead, but check out these countries which are ranked by how much people are searching for Yale (Harvard comparison):哈佛料做出來的未來，但看看這些國家都是排名多少人正在尋找耶魯大學（美國哈佛大學比較） ：

Google lets us get even more precise, though: down to city level. Google公司可以讓我們得到更精確的，雖然：到縣市一級。 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.這真是有趣，因為我們看到的速度在耶魯學生尋找自己的比較，有多少哈佛學生尋找東西，大約耶魯大學。 If we then compare this to那麼，如果比較這 another chart另一個圖 , showing how often Harvard searches for Harvard, we see that Yale–via New Haven–doesn’t even make the top ten. ，顯示如何往往哈佛尋找哈佛，我們看到雅禮途經新天堂-不工作，甚至使十強。 In other words, Harvard is by some measures more interested in Yale than Yale is in Harvard.或者換句話說，美國哈佛大學，是由一些措施，更熱衷於耶魯比耶魯，是在哈佛。 Inferiority complex much?自卑情結多少？ : ) (Yes, I realize this is methodologically flawed… just joking). ： ） （是的，我明白這是在方法上的缺陷…只是開玩笑） 。

Finally, we can compare the international chart with a language chart.最後，我們可以比較一下國際圖同一種語言的圖表。 English is first, then Chinese, then, surprisingly enough, Italian.英語是第一，那麼中國人，那麼，足夠令人驚訝，意大利語。

Very interesting for a few minutes googling!非常有趣幾分鐘MSN Search進行了搜索！ I highly recommend playing around with google trends and exploring interesting things about your own favorite words, or trends, or schools.我高度推薦玩弄與Google趨勢，並探討有趣的事情，你自己最喜歡的話，還是趨勢，或學校。 Dogs and Puppies beat Cats and Kittens, etc. Have fun, and don’t draw too many sweeping statistical conclusions : )狗和小狗打貓和小貓等，有樂趣，也不要太多席捲統計結論： ）