Any International Interest in Belarus?
I had an impression after our presidential “elections” that news coverage about Belarus very quickly subsided and returned to pre-election levels after Belarusans “failed” to stage a color revolution contary to Westerners’ expectations. This was just a subjective impression, but my hunch turned out to be correct. Recently, Google launched yet another new nifty tool, called Google Trends, and now you can check statistical data for any keyword. It shows a very clear trend for the keyword “Belarus”:
There’s a sharp jump at the end of March, and then a very quick return to “normality” after the flop.
Upd: I’ve just posted this entry when I realized that my fellow bloggers at TOL Blogs have posted almost identical entry several hours ago!
