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Google Launches Trends

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-hip-with-the-kids-these-days dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google started to offer a new Trends service that allows viewing search term request statistics split up by geographical locations and languages. In short one can use Google trends to figure out what's hot and what's not and perhaps even find cyclic patterns to pick best time to advertise. From my poking around Google trends I have noticed that there appears to be a general declining bias for most search terms that either has to do with the declining popularity of Google (i.e. less folks were using Google for the past two years) or with the declining amount of searches in general (which is highly unlikely)."

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  1. Re:Google LAUNCHED Trends by JanneM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try this search, just to put that into perspective.

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  2. Re:Google LAUNCHED Trends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And to put THAT into perspective, try this tend.

  3. Food for thought... by WindowsIsForArseWipe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=bomb+making&ctab=1& geo=all&date=all

  4. Re:Google LAUNCHED Trends by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And to put that INTO perspective - try this search

    (This can go on all day!)

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  5. Seasonality by sveinb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ice cream, snowboarding

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=ice+cream%2C+snowbo arding&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

  6. Someone call Maslow by eko33 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Modern culture's hierarchy has changed!

    New Maslow

    /idle speculation

  7. BlogScope by lailla123 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There exist many better trendspotting tools, e.g. try BlogScope. For example, compare YouTube and Google Video.

  8. Re:Dumb Pagerank spam. by kabz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yikes !!!

    Check out the searches for C++, SQL, Perl and get a load of that decline, though the main source of queries for all three is Bangalore. Ouch !! Incidentally Dallas and Houston make an appearance in the lower ranks.

    On a happier note, I predict news soon, from Peru, of a resurgence in the fortunes of the Amiga. AmigaOS forever !!!

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  9. Singular v. plural by scooter.higher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now this is interesting:

    Man v. Woman
    http://www.google.com/trends?q=man%2C+woman&ctab=0 &geo=all&date=all

    Men v. Women
    http://www.google.com/trends?q=men%2C+women&ctab=0 &geo=all&date=all

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  10. Re:Google LAUNCHED Trends by Bruitist · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This one makes me sad...

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  11. Re:An even Scarier Trend by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. So many alleged trends are actually propped up by something else.

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=france%2C+paris%2C+ %22paris+hilton%22%2C+%22tour+de+france%22&ctab=1& geo=all&date=all

  12. Re:Snowboarding vs hiking by shawb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly. Looking at holiday related terms is very telling Wow... that last one is odd. There's a very telling lack of a peak there... Since july 4th was almost 2 months ago, one would assume that there should be a peak. Either people did not celebrate Independance Day in the US this year, they celebrated in a different way, or google trend's data is at least two months out of date, and therefore useless for trendspotting.

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