Googling Bangladesh – What People Search?
With over 95% market share, Google is the most popular search engine among Bangladeshis, both home and abroad. People from other countries also Googling Bangladesh for various reasons – information, news, trade, business, recreation, etc. But what people really search about Bangladesh? One way to find out this is to use Goggle’s ‘instant search’ feature. Google Instant can reveal branding of any keyword.
Google Instant, also called Google auto search or Google suggest, is a feature of predictive search that automatically recommends popular searches as you type your query into Google’s search field. Google Instant predicts what you’re looking for and starts to show results as you type. The suggested prediction comes from volume of queries. The possible searches that you see are based on what other people are searching for and the content of web pages indexed by Google. It is not only a Google feature, now Bing actually does this as well. So do major search engines like DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, etc.
Googling Bangladesh will tell you what kind of information people are searching for from their geo-location. These search results generally changes over time based on event, demand etc. Google has some country specific search engines that are default for that geo-location. We googled the word ‘Bangladesh’ in those sites in Australia, Bahrain, Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States as most of the Bangladeshi diaspora live those countries. Some websites are in English and some are in their native language.
Top two searches: Bangladesh Newspaper and Bangladesh Cricket
So what Google suggests when someone starts typing the word Bangladesh? Two searches define Bangladesh on Google: Bangladesh Newspaper and Bangladesh Cricket. Then there are Bangladesh consulate, Bangladesh currency, airline ticket, Bangla songs, etc. These search results characterize the kinds of information Bangladeshi community search from abroad (an assumption)! Here are screenshots of some searches from Google’s Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, Italy, and Bangladesh domain.
More Google search results from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Oman, Kuwait, Japan and Korea. While googling Bangladesh, these sites were set to their local language settings.
Above are, however, Google’s instant search results on Bangladesh. Through Google Trends, Google can track how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. Here is Google trend in Bangladesh for 2015.
Googling only one word, Bangladesh tells some interesting facts about searching trends among Bangladeshis. You can try your own search in various search engine websites. Perhaps, typing following questions can be a good start!
What these instant search results say you about Bangladesh?
Lastly, what people get when they type Bangladesh on other search engines? Below are the few examples:
What Bangladeshis look for when they search the internet? Googling the word 'Bangladesh' on Google and some of its country-specific websites, plus few other search engines reveal some interesting facts. Googling Bangladesh - What People Search? With over 95% market share, Google is the most popular search engine among Bangladeshis, both home and abroad.
