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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. 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

  3. 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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  4. 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