Is Google’s Zeitgeist losing the plot?

[rpm]

Google’s Zeitgeist generally gave a good indication of the most popular search terms in South Africa. But the March stats for South Africa however look very strange.

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[bwana]

"Is Google’s Zeitgeist losing the plot?" - Why do the blog posts often look like you've been possessed by a Russian spammer?

EDIT - looks like you either need to get Wordpress to use ISO-8859-1 or get vBulletin to convert from UTF-8.

 

[kilo39]

more noobs moving onto the internet (different demographic) and those other peeps have now realised how to enter a url.

something somewhere is working contrary to expectations or "encouragement."