Irish are the world's loneliest Web users. Ireland may be enjoying stellar economic growth and seen as one of the best places in the world to live, but its inhabitants are apparently also the globe's loneliest. Google Trends, which works out how many searches have been done via the Internet search engine on particular terms, showed the word "lonely" was entered most frequently by Internet users in Ireland: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lonely. The Irish, enjoying new-found wealth and a flood of immigration following more than a century of economic decline, are followed in the misery stakes by residents of Singapore -- although Singaporeans are the most frequent searchers of "happiness." Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for a given term coming from each city, region or language divided by total Google searches coming from the same area. Ireland's capital, Dublin, topped the city list for "lonely" searches, followed by Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004, the Economist magazine named Ireland the best place to live in the world in a "quality of life" assessment.    (Agencies)

虽然爱尔兰的经济稳步增长，又被评为世界上最适合居住的国家，但爱尔兰人似乎却是世界上最孤独的人。 “Google 趋势”能够统计出某些特定词条在互联网搜索引擎中的搜索量，它的统计显示：在网上搜索“孤独”一词最频繁的竟是爱尔兰的互联网用户（http://www.google.com/trends?q=lonely）。 爱尔兰在经历了一个多世纪的经济萧条后，开始迎来经济复苏，并有大批的移民涌入。尽管新加坡人搜索“快乐”一词最为频繁，但在“孤独”搜索量的地区排行榜上，新加坡却仅次于爱尔兰，位于第二。 Google趋势能够计算出各个城市、地区或各种语言中对某一关键词的搜索量与同一地区Google总搜索量的比率。 爱尔兰的首都都柏林是“孤独”搜索量最高的城市，其次是澳大利亚的墨尔本和新西兰的奥克兰。 2004年，在《经济学家》杂志举办的“生活质量”评估中，爱尔兰被评为世界上最适合居住的国家。 (中国日报网站编译)