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Wikipedia's Viewing Statistics Could Provide Better Web-Trends Data Than Google

Posted by samzenpus on from the cause-it's-hot dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Japan have established an almost 75% correlation between Google Trends data on keyword surges and equivalent Wikipedia page views. Since Google provides aggregate web-trends data with little granularity, the 'early ripples' of web interest are far harder to detect via its APIs than by a system that gathers information from Wikipedia's publicy accessible page views data.

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  1. Re:Why is this surprising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    True, but that's not the point. It doesn't matter how people get to Wikipedia, what matters is that we can get the trend data faster and in more detail than Google releases.