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In the end it's as interesting as the brand of chess pieces at a chess tournament. If you look at the solutions to Google Code Jam (http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0) for example then you'll see that it's mostly disgusting code made of arrays and loops and you can do those in pretty much any language. People get good at algorithms by sitting down, learning and implementing them, not by sweating the choice of language.

"Originally, Google neglected updating Google Trends on a regular basis. In March 2007, internet bloggers noticed that Google had not added new data since November 2006, and Trends was updated within a week. Google did not update Trends from March until July 30, and only after it was blogged about, again.[2] Google now claims to be "updating the information provided by Google Trends daily; Hot Trends is updated hourly."

Google Insights for Search seems to be better for this sort of analysis since it offers regional filtering options and puts the searched term into context.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=xkcd%2Cpenny%20arca...

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000807

str + other_str => new_str

Concatenation Returns a new String containing other_str concatenated to str.

str << fixnum => str str.concat(fixnum) => str str << obj => str str.concat(obj) => str

Append Concatenates the given object to str. If the object is a Fixnum between 0 and 255, it is converted to a character before concatenation.