industryterm:search data

MH370 search data unveils fishing hot spots, ancient geological movements
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh370-mapping-idUSKBN1A407W

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Detailed sea-floor maps made during the unsuccessful search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, released by Australia on Wednesday, could help increase the knowledge of rich fisheries and the prehistoric movement of the earth’s southern continents.
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“There are the locations of seamounts which will attract a lot of international deep sea fishermen to the area,” Pattiaratchi told Reuters by phone.

High-priced fish such as tuna, toothfish, orange roughy, alfonsino and trevally are known to gather near the seamounts, where plankton swirl in the currents.

Pattiaratchi said the location of seamounts would also help model the impact of tsunamis, given undersea mountains help dissipate their destructive energy, and potentially change our understanding of the break-up of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.

People are Googling the Ku Klux Klan like never before - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/interest-in-the-ku-klux-klan-surges-at-the-dawn-of-the-trump-era

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Americans have never been more interested in looking up the Ku Klux Klan online than they are right now, according to search data from Google Trends.

Google doesn’t publish the exact number of people who are searching for the infamous and often violent white supremacist group, or for any other topic. But comparisons to other, presumably high-volume search terms give some sense of the magnitude. For several days this month, about as many people were searching for the Ku Klux Klan as were looking for Kim Kardashian and college football, combined.

In November, interest in the Ku Klux Klan is about twice as high as it was at its previous 12-year peak back in March of this year, when Donald Trump did not immediately renounce an endorsement from former Klan leader David Duke. Interest in the Klan also spiked in November 2008, after the election of the first black president.

#trump #kkk #klu_klux_klan #extrême_droite

The Shazam Effect - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-shazam-effect/382237/?single_page=true

By studying 20 million searches every day, Shazam can identify which songs are catching on, and where, before just about anybody else. “Sometimes we can see when a song is going to break out months before most people have even heard of it,” Jason Titus, Shazam’s former chief technologist, told me. (Titus is now a senior director at Google.) Last year, Shazam released an interactive map overlaid with its search data, allowing users to zoom in on cities around the world and look up the most Shazam’d songs in São Paulo, Mumbai, or New York. The map amounts to a real-time seismograph of the world’s most popular new music, helping scouts discover unsigned artists (...)

“We know where a song’s popularity starts, and we can watch it spread,” Titus told me. Take, for example, Lorde, the out-of-nowhere sensation of 2013. Shazam’s engineers can rewind time to trace the international contagion of her first single, “Royals,” watching the pings of Shazam searches spread from New Zealand, her home country, to Nashville (a major music hub, even for noncountry songs), to the American coasts, pinpointing the exact day it peaked in each of nearly 3,000 U.S. cities.

#mèmes #contagion #épidémiologie #surveillance #musique