Update: This has now been fixed. A bunch of thanks to Omar Ansari and Badar Khushnood for doing their bits.
Google remains the barometer for measuring what people are doing on the Internet en mass. Google’s Zeitgeist country-level breakdown page provides a useful (and often funny) view of what are Internet users doing in a given country as a whole.
Somehow, Pakistan has been removed from this page. The entry for Pakistan used to reside at:
but is not available now. This might be a short hiccup due to some unavailable data or a permanent removal. The later, obviously, is disturbing for us in Pakistan. Heck, even Afghanistan is being considered to be included in the list.
Let us wait for some time and hope we get our trends back at the page.
December 27, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Thank god that google has removed zeitgiest for Pakistan. Anyone who has seen the previous years data knows that the statistics weren’t very flattering. It definitely didn’t help further Pakistan’s reputation.
December 29, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I have to agree with Abdussamad on that one. Though what we really should be doing is creating enough incentive for people to search more than just smut and the latest entertainment from our neighbours.
January 1, 2008 at 2:43 am
I informed a friend at google about this, and he’ll get this fixed. expect zeitgeist to list Pakistan again soon.
January 10, 2008 at 8:25 am
My heart bleeds for pk. So many friends, so many hopes for so much from my heart. May peace be upon BB, & all those who have died. We are not carbon copies of Bush!!! US Friend.
January 14, 2008 at 11:45 pm
It’s back — Chk it out @ http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html#pk
Enjoy,
Badar.
January 15, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Paktranslations is the top mover, great going Zeeshan!
January 18, 2008 at 9:01 pm
tariq bhai, its back,
i just checked, i think your posting works.
January 23, 2008 at 9:35 pm
its really stupid that the algo is case sensitive
for afghanistan, entry #1 and #5 are:
afghanistan
Afghanistan
On another note, its funny for people of a country to be searching for themselves. Or is it sad?
February 9, 2008 at 1:19 pm
yes google has removed zeitgiest.
March 10, 2008 at 12:06 pm
It was missing for one month but it back now… Check it out again…