Reading Roars!

The Register, always an entertaining read, commented on Reading’s top performing city status in an article headed Reading: UK’s epicentre of va-va-voom:

we went and did a bit of research of our own, just to see if Reading is indeed the UK’s epicentre of va-va-voom. Using the invariably accurate Google Trends facility, we found that the city still retained some of its past legacy, ranking 9th for prostitution and 8th for crack cocaine.

Among indicators that Reading might be on the up-and-up, Reading is dissapointingly not ranked at all for champagne, Ferraris or money laundering

However, it does show promise elsewhere, meriting 9th place for yachts and an impressive 5th for private jets

Google Trends, eh.  Turns out that Reading is also ranked 7th for caviar and 5th for truffles.  Then again, Rochdale is first for Burj al Arab.