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		<title>Bing API moving behind paywall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Compare-Stuff's days are numbered.  Bing's Search API is moving to pay-only.  If I can't find a free (for low volume usage) search API, I will probably shut the site down...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2012/04/12/bing-api-moving-behind-paywall/</link>
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		<title>Moved to Bing Search API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Search API is dead (ahem, for several months already) so I&#8217;ve switched to Bing.  Not sure if it&#8217;s working all that well&#8230;
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		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2011/10/02/moved-to-bing-search-api/</link>
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		<title>Obligatory UK election charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a shame compare-stuff doesn&#8217;t let you compare three things, but never mind.  Here we go with &#8220;Labour Party&#8221; vs. &#8220;Conservative Party&#8221; compared over recent years:

And here&#8217;s &#8220;Labour Party&#8221; vs &#8220;Liberal Democrats&#8221;:


And to complete the circle &#8220;Conservative Party&#8221; vs &#8220;Liberal Democrats&#8221;:

And finally, some personal qualities compared between the two contenders for Gordon Brown&#8217;s job:

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		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2010/04/29/obligatory-uk-election-charts/</link>
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		<title>The meteoric rise of mephedrone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start by comparing some old-school drugs, cannabis and cocaine, and their relative occurrence on web pages containing the numbers 2004 to 2010.  In other words, let&#8217;s see how their web-popularity has changed in recent years:

They are almost identical.   Let&#8217;s try another two, MDMA and heroin:

Again they are very similar, but with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2010/03/29/the-meteoric-rise-of-mephedrone/</link>
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		<title>Personal hygiene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This plot has a really nice shape.  But it does suggest that people let things go during the week.

I mean, really, people should be cleaning their teeth every day of the week, not just before a big Saturday night out.
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		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2010/03/24/personal-hygiene/</link>
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		<title>Bugfixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pubmed version had broken due to a change in the Pubmed results format.  It was easy to fix and now you can query for all kinds of trends in the biomedical research literature.  See the previous blog post for more examples.
I also removed the &#8220;powered by Yahoo&#8221; icon because Yahoo are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2010/03/20/bugfixes/</link>
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		<title>Head to head: EU-based airlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Ryanair in the news &#8220;blaming high passenger taxes and rising charges&#8221; for its cutbacks at London Stansted, you might be thinking &#8220;Hang on a minute, but Ryanair are the masters of hidden taxes and charges!&#8221;.   Well let&#8217;s see who is most moaned about on the web in this respect:

Surprisingly, BMI Baby tops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2009/07/22/head-to-head-eu-based-airlines/</link>
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		<title>Even dead people have lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[However, none of the following graphs will make any accusations of misconduct or mental instability whatsoever.
To mark the passing of the King of Pop, I have introduced a new category for the X-axis: &#8220;famous dead people&#8221;.  By this I mean famous people who died a bit too soon.
Recently deceased Michael Jackson won&#8217;t be remembered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2009/06/26/even-dead-people-have-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>Punch Bob Crow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;ll add a token graph but most of you probably want to punch Bob Crow for ruining your day (if you live or work in London, UK).
The graph below sums him up perfectly.  Bob Crow is a hostile, pessimistic ~@^&#038;er.  Click on the plot to get a (slightly more) legible version!

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		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2009/06/10/punch-bob-crow/</link>
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		<title>More flu graphs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well this swine flu really caught us by surprise didn&#8217;t it?  After months of worry about avian flu a while back, now it&#8217;s really happening, but coming from the other side of the planet.
Here&#8217;s a plot of &#8220;swine flu&#8221; and &#8220;avian flu&#8221; vs. recent months:


And for a longer perspective:

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		<link>http://blog.compare-stuff.com/2009/04/28/more-flu-graphs/</link>
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