Recently Google introduced a new tool called Google Trends that helps find facts and trends related to search and news. I played it for a while and found the following interesting fact.

• I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong? Google Trends said: Singapore.
• I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong Universities, Hong Kong schools, or Hong Kong colleges? Google Trends said: Singapore.
• I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong house? Google Trends said: Singapore.
• I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong food and Hong Kong shopping? Google Trends said: Singapore.
• I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong company? Google Trends said: Nigeria and Singapore.

One reason I can guess for this fact is that Internet connectivity in Singapore should be very good compared to other countries that are also interested in Hong Kong. Any more reasons about it?

Previous related posts: Which University in Hong Kong has the biggest website?

One way to give an answer to this question is to check the number of web pages that have been indexed by Google. Here shows you how and what I get.

Take the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an example, I first go to google.com.hk and input “info:polyu.edu.hk“. Then I follow the link saying “find web pages from the site polyu.edu.hk”. Finally, I get the result saying “about 502,000 from polyu.edu.hk”.

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Recently, I spent around 20 hours of hard-working in my spare time and sleep time to build a new website titled “Mentions of Hong Kong Universities”. I built it to demonstrate the usefulness of some public Web services, to prove myself adept at building a meaningful website with the valuable resources from the open source community, and to test the power of individual in the big wave of Web publishing.

The Idea

The website Mentions of Hong Kong Universities (MHKU) has a simple and clear theme: what the rest of the world is saying about Hong Kong universities and their people.

Hong Kong has eight universities. It is quite frequently that local media and newspapers report on what is happening in these universities. While local media mentions of them are frequent and abundant, how about a worldwide mentions? Are there any people in the rest of the world mentioning about Hong Kong universities? What are they saying, why do they interest, and what are their viewpoints and opinions? (more…)

The following is the ranking, in terms of Internet traffic, of 9 universities in Hong Kong. The ranking was complied by using the service provided by Alexa. The data on the traffic rankings was collected on 6 October 2005.

1. University of Hong Kong (Traffic Rank for hku.hk: 1,047)
2. Chinese University of Hong Kong (Traffic Rank for cuhk.edu.hk: 1,746)
3. City University of Hong Kong (Traffic Rank for cityu.edu.hk: 1,849)
4. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Traffic Rank for polyu.edu.hk: 2,498)
5. Hong Kong Baptist University (Traffic Rank for hkbu.edu.hk: 3,692)
6. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Traffic Rank for ust.hk: 6,482)
7. The Hong Kong Institute of Education (Traffic Rank for ied.edu.hk: 9,981)
8. The Open University of Hong Kong (Traffic Rank for ouhk.edu.hk: 13,313)
9. Lingnan University (Traffic Rank for ln.edu.hk: 13,762)

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World Community Grid uses grid technology to network computers and uses their idle time to help tackle vital projects on human health and welfare globally. It is the world’s largest public computing grid benefiting humanity.

Members download and install a small program onto their computers. Those computers, when idel, will request data from the server of World Community Grid, then do some computations on this data, and then send the computation results back to the server. They will ask the server for a new set of data to perform another cycle of work.
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Mainland’s first foreign-managed university opens in September 17, 2005. It is the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus (UNNC), which offers British degree courses at half the cost of studying in Britian. The courses will be taught entirely in China and mainly by British academics. The costing formula is designed to appeal to mainland’s growing middle class.

I learns this news from Hong Kong South China Morning Post this morning. I then search the Internet to find some related information. I find the following worthwhile to have a look.

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