Search of the Day: New York

In honor of the day trip that will leave me unable to post tomorrow, let’s take a look at what people want to know when it comes the the Big Apple.

‘Brooklyn New York’ and ‘Bronx New York’, interestingly enough, top the list when looking at search volume for New York, New York City and NYC-based terms, both peaking in January and averaging 368,000 and 246,000 searches per month in respectively. ‘New York City’ and ‘New York NY’ register 246,000 and 201,000 respectively while ‘Queens New York’ is the next closest at 33,100. ‘Harlem New York’  is languishing at a tenth of that level, about the same number of searches for the misspelling ‘Manhatten New York’. No search volume registered for ‘Hell’s Kitchen New York’, in case you were wondering.

What do people want to do in New York? Apparently a healthy portion have no clue, per the 9,990 searches per month for ‘Things to do in New York’ and 8,100 for the same with ‘city’ tacked onto the end. The more easily led drive even more traffic, with ‘New York Tours’ driving 49,500 searches per month.

Not all who wander are lost, however; searches for ‘New York Museums’ (8,100) and ‘New York Restaurants’ (14,100) show that people at least want to see something specific and, you know, eat. The city’s famed shopping, however, drives only 3,600 searches per month and its theater scene drives 2,900 – surprising, given that 5,400 search for Central Park – evidently, seeing vagrants and getting mugged is more popular than vising Time Square.

Other notable searches for which there is Google data:

• New York Parking: 2,900 searches / month: That many searches for what is essentially ‘You’re dreaming’?
• New York City Bars: 1,300 searches / month: That many searches for what is essentially  ‘Look across the damn street, fool?’
• New York directions: 170 searches / month: Just follow the cabs, they always take the shortest route.
• New York City classes: 46 searches / month: AKA extremely poor, extremely rich, those pretend to be extremely rich on the street but are poor enough have no furniture in their apartments and those who would be extremely rich elsewhere and are slowly coming around to that fact.

New York, I love you. Just in small doses.

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