I just found this on Google's blog and thought I would share it as not only does it look cool, it has strong ties to Web Science regarding the different languages used on the Web across the globe. The globe shows a day's worth of searches, with each language that a query is made in represented by a different colour. While it doesn't seem surprising to see far fewer queries in certain areas of the world, I still find it shocking to see how much of a difference there is between continents.
If you have a WebGL-enabled browser (Chrome and Firefox 4 should be fine) then the visualisation should display in this post. You can spin the globe and zoom in/out by dragging around on the globe. Read more about Search Globe in Google's own blog.
Thoughts, comments and discussion about anything you find interesting about this are more than welcome.
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