CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Googling the Cleveland zoo? So are a lot of people.

Google ranked the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as the No. 1 summer travel destination search among Ohio residents.

The zoo beat out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, No. 2; the Cleveland Museum of Art, No. 3; and the Great Lakes Science Center, No. 4.

 

The fastest-growing attraction searched by Ohioans was the West Side Market, a 98-year-old venue where vendors sell meats, fish, produce, pastries and ethnic food four days a week. The city-owned market ranked No. 5.

 

Megan Danielson, Midwest manager of travel for Google, said the company studied the Google search trends by Ohioans over five weeks in August and September 2009 and five weeks in August and September of this year.

The study determined that search volume for the zoo increased by 70 percent. Searches for the West Side Market jumped 191 percent.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/10/ohioans_have_gone_google_over.html

I don't get it.  The article makes it sound like the survey was for all of Ohio, but only lists Cleveland attractions.

The rest of the state is obviously all about Bing!™.

I don't get it. The article makes it sound like the survey was for all of Ohio, but only lists Cleveland attractions.

 

Cleveland has the highest population within the state of any metro area, if you assume that there is a comparable amount of people from Cincinnati googling Columbus and vice versa, then whoever has the largest number of in metro googling would win. 

Did the Cleveland Zoo see an increase in visitors too? It's good to see more interest in our zoos here in Ohio.  Like libraries, they are one part of Ohio that is really first class.  I know the Cincinnati Zoo saw a huge jump in visitors, although the bum economy was thought to be the primary reason.

^ Yeah, there was an article or two about it in the PD earlier this summer.  I'm not sure if the Cin. zoo does the same thing, but the Cle. Zoo is free on Mondays for Cuyahoga county residents, and that was the major reason they thought attendance was up so much.

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What else is there?

 

Just kidding!