Google Trends: tour de france

Have you seen GoogleTrends? Very cool. It is the technology that was in the News for being able to find flu outbreaks faster than the CDC. So I was playing with it. Notice a few really interesting things from the Tour de France search. First the relative popularity of the searches. The US ranks way down on the list.

Google Trends: tour de france

1.	France
2.	Netherlands
3.	Belgium
4.	Denmark
5.	Australia
6.	Switzerland
7.	Germany
8.	United Kingdom
9.	United States
10.	Austria

Then also note the large drop off in popularity after Lance Armstrong retired the first time.