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StateStats "shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state."

The first thing I tried was [zines], which appropriately showed Oregon as having the most searches on that term, followed distantly by Washington, with New York in third with just under half as many searches.

Have you noticed the new Google ratings dealies? You can promote or remove your ranked search results by clicking the arrow or X.

Anything look familiar?

Since Google is tracking my every move, I figured I should share some of the juicy bits with you, as well. Following are all of my Google searches (personal and professional) for June 18 and 19, 2008. Stuff in the parentheses was not part of the search.

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative is hosting a training, or really an "untraining," meaning the event's program will be devised at the beginning of the day, based on the attendees' preferences, on using OpenOffice, the open source rival of MS Office. (I wonder if there will be any discussion of the Mac version, NeoOffice.) The event will be held at Google's NYC offices, so there may be some talk about Google docs and the like, as well.

June 5th, 2008 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 76 9th Avenue. Register.

Here's a little report back from the Google and Libraries conference I attended on Monday. The conference was organized to be part of ILIAC (International Library Information and Analytical Center)'s Tenth International Workshop: "Digital Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West." It was held at Columbia University on Monday, March 10, 2008.