Eat, Pray, Love, Search on Yahoo!
- Posted August 13th, 2010 at 11:42 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search Trends
Think again if you’ve relegated the movie Eat, Pray, Love to the chick flick category. This weekend, Julia Roberts stars in the movie based on the bestselling novel. Yahoo! searches reveal that there’s definitely excitement about the movie, and it isn’t just from the ladies. Searches on Yahoo! for “eat pray love” are up over 900% this month. While 77% of those searching “eat, pray, love” on Yahoo! are from women, 23% of searches are from men.
The Yahoo! Search Data Syndication team put together the map above based on Yahoo! searches of the movie. There seems to be a lot of interest within Northeastern corner of the U.S. Top states searching “eat pray love” this month are Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.
In the movie, our heroine travels to three countries starting with the letter “I”. Could Eat, Pray, Love spur travel to Italy, India and Indonesia? We’re seeing search spikes for “bali travel”, “italy travel”, and “india travel” this month. Maybe the summer travel season isn’t quite over yet!
Search data can be a fascinating way to interpret trends and interests. Check back at the Yahoo! Search Blog for other search trends later this month.
Yahoo! Search Team
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Well, basically how does Yahoo! identifies whether a surfer is male or female?
I would guess from their Yahoo! id information?
I just saw Eat, Pray, Love last night. For the Bali section, it should have been titled “Drugged, Robbed, and Blown Up”
There were some minor yet factual problems with the Bali section of the movie. The heavy set Balinese woman who was hanging around Ketut’s place would have never talked to a foreigner the way the movie showed her talking to Julia Roberts. The bike Julia used in Bali surely didn’t come from Bali as all the bikes there are total junk. And where were all the malaria-ravaged dogs who roam the streets in Bali? I am surprised one didn’t jump out and bite Julia. The part where Javier knocks Julia off her bike with his car is reality. Julia should be lucky it was a “Bule” (foreigner) who knocked her off and not a local person, because if it was a local, Julia would have had to pay for all of their damges and expenses which would have been inflated 500% so those involved could line their sarongs with a little dosh (British term for $$). Last, the part in the movie where Julia is talked into asking for donations from her friends to build the local Balinese woman a house is very true. That’s the Balinese trick of tricks: They want foreigners to think that they are so poor and cannot afford anything. If they just had $18,000 US to build a little house, all their problems would go away. The Balinese are like Jessie James without the horse.
-Ketut