{"id":4064,"date":"2011-01-24T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2011-01-24T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T03:40:48","slug":"autocompleting-the-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2011\/01\/24\/autocompleting-the-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Autocompleting the Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/5386553290\/\" title=\"autocomplete_vendors by sogrady, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5218\/5386553290_ebd53a727a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"autocomplete_vendors\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December, Very Small Array <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verysmallarray.com\/?p=1056\">posted<\/a> a simple but interesting visualization of Google Autocomplete data called the United States of Autocomplete. The concept was simple: capture the first query Google suggests for each state in the United States. I liked the idea so much I copied it, swapping states for technology vendors. Also, I made the graphics much, much more worse (it&#8217;s the best I could do at 10 PM with a public domain map of the US). <\/p>\n<p>The above chart represents the first word Google Search suggests to me after typing in the complete vendor name as of around 9:30 this evening. It&#8217;s what people search for most, in other words, in conjunction with the vendor name. The results are more for your entertainment than edification, but there are a few that make you think, and even the truly irrelevant returns &#8211; Red Hat <i>society<\/i>, anyone? &#8211; have something to say about relative popularity and visibility. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of an eye chart, but a bigger version is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/5386553290\/sizes\/o\/\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re curious. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure<\/b>: just for the sake of form: Adobe, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace, Red Hat, Salesforce.com, and SAP are RedMonk customers. Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Intel, Novell, Oracle and VMware are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, Very Small Array posted a simple but interesting visualization of Google Autocomplete data called the United States of Autocomplete. The concept was simple: capture the first query Google suggests for each state in the United States. I liked the idea so much I copied it, swapping states for technology vendors. Also, I made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}