Kerala is 2nd most searched Indian landmark

Sep 17, 2012 - Kiran Tom Sajan |

Kochi

Tags:

Google

Kerala is ranked second in the country among the list of ‘most-searched landmarks’. The list was published by Google on its official blog, based on the searches made on Google Maps as part of the summer-end bulletin.

According to the Google Maps team, it made an analysis of the searches to identify the most-sought-after destinations and landmarks in the world during summer.

“To do this, we reviewed the summer search activity on maps.google.com in several countries between the end of May and the beginning of September.

Within each country, a look at some of the top-rising searches and the often-searched landmarks on Google Maps gives us a sense of how people around the world spent their summers,” said Manik Gupta, the senior product manager of Google Maps, in his blog post.

Yamuna Expressway, the recently-opened 165 km-long controlled-access expressway connecting Greater Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh, is the most searched Indian landmark, according to Google statistics, Anna University in Tamil Nadu and Taj Mahal are ranked third and fourth respectively.

The searches for the Yamuna Expressway are ahead of Kerala only by a slight margin.

The Google Maps team has also analysed US, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Great Britain to find the most sought-after landmarks in the respective countries.

Popular searches in India was also analysed categorically for the summer bulletin.

This indicates that tourist attractions are the most searched criteria in Google Maps, followed by Railway and Metro stations and religious places.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/189500" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-a367c9a13b35bd2f958244f9c4f2ab3e" value="form-a367c9a13b35bd2f958244f9c4f2ab3e" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="86833397" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>