Google for Statistics

I like to use Google to conduct little surveys on how things are done, or what people think. For example, I was thinking about what the relative popularity of SPSS and SAS were for teaching statistics to psychologists, in UK and US universities. So I searched for
[SAS psychology anova site:edu] and got (about) 10,000 hits.
[SPSS psychology anova site:edu] 6,000 hits.
(I added anova to make sure it didn't pick up other meanings for SAS). Conclusion: SPSS is a little more popular than SAS, in US university psychology departments. (I also ran it with 'regression' instead of 'anova', with a similar result, but SPSS's lead was a lot smaller).

Do it again for the UK and we find:
[SAS psychology anova site:ac.uk] 607 hits.
[SPSS psychology anova site:ac.uk] 1,930 hits.

So SPSS has the lead in both, but it's got a bigger lead in the UK than the US. (For regression, it's also got about three times more).

However, here's a comic from xkcd which uses the same approach in a much more interesting way: