How high is your overview?
30 May 2007
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I’ve was going to write something today and I wanted to use the idiom “from a 20,000 foot view”, but I was questioning whether I got the number “20,000″ right. So, I did what any self-respecting geek would do, I Googled it. Well, as I expected, different people view things from different altitudes. I searched for two phrases, “from X feet” and “X foot view”, substituting X in for increments of 10,000. Here are the number of results Google said it had for the different numbers:
| Feet | “from X feet” | “X foot view” |
| 10,000 | 46,400 | 24,300 |
| 20,000 | 24,900 | 1,890 |
| 30,000 | 81,400 | 22,200 |
| 40,000 | 11,100 | 692 |
| 50,000 | 50,400 | 10,600 |
| 60,000 | 1,020 | 38 |
| 70,000 | 65 | 2 |
| 80,000 | 93 | 17 |
| 90,000 | 35 | 2 |
| 100,000 | 1,440 | 83 |
So it looks like people are generally looking at things from 30,000 feet (but keep in mind, my analysis is only based on a 10,000 foot view of the statistics).
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