Google Launches Trends 168
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)."
Dumb Pagerank spam. (Score:5, Insightful)
Dumb. Maybe he's correct, that google popularity is declining, but the examples he gives do not back up his hypothesis.
There's less searches for Ultramax, Trance music, Madonna and Britney Spears than two years ago. Thats because those items are less popular than two years ago.
Oh, and doing a quick search for the author of this 'blog' (which is starting to look suspiciously like a pagerank pusher), I see he has an ecommerce site called ultramax music, that features trance). [ultramax-music.com]
So - two of his search items are related to what he's selling! An interesting way to get your name, music & company linked from a high profile website.
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For example, in a search for trends on searches for "porn", the trend is UP. Searches for "video ga
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There are also less searches for Linux [google.com]. Amiga [google.com] has been been increasing recently. Look Mum, I can see a trend! Well, maybe not [google.com].
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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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You can see very nicely how each region has chosen a favorite IM network. Being a Romanian myself, I can testify that Yahoo messenger is used much more than anything else.
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Also, I emailed the Ultramax guy a while back (I happen to rather like the music and purchased an album of theirs) and he seems to have good intentions with things. I'd prefer this type of spam to Roland P's any day.
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I'm betting basically all search-terms have a downward slope -- especially technocrati ones, for the simple reason that the Internet, and Google becomes more and more common among more and more diverse sets of people, so search-terms gets more and more diverse too.
Google LAUNCHED Trends (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google LAUNCHED Trends (Score:5, Interesting)
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(This can go on all day!)
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Most people are much more interested in the Soft Fruit Rankings [google.com]
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Now find something even higher than that
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Well, at least look on the bright side... (Score:1)
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Reflection (Score:1)
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I'm particularly amused by the fact that it is Canada, and not the US, that scores the highest for 'slashdot' and 'digg', and that India is in the top ten (didn't know Slashdot was that big in India!).
I would have explained that away by saying that these were results for google searches for /. and not actual hits themselves (meaning, if you were a slashdot regular, you wouldn't have searched for it on google), but the cities list is stumping me; why are all those tech-oriented folks in MIT/ Harvard etc (ie
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New trends? (Score:1)
Re:New trends? (Score:5, Funny)
Next on Slashdot: "Microsoft announces Windows ME"...
general declining bias? (Score:5, Informative)
I ran my own tests, and I think that the "search volume" axis is relative to the total number of searches on each day, rather than an absolute number. Most of my tests didn't show a declining bias, although I saw that in a few cases. I think the "declining bias" you saw might be caused by an increase in the diversity of search terms. Old search terms never go away, but new search terms are constantly being created as new names and catch phrases enter popular culture.
Doug Moen
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All this means is that people are using a wider range of search terms. (either from new terms entering general
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=blog%2C+html&ctab=0 &geo=all&date=all [google.com]
Clearly the results follow the trends of popular culture (at least in this computer tech. based example). It is not clear that HTML is searched less often given the results in the url above. All that is shown is that HTML composed a lower proportion of searches requested in mid 2006 than in the beginning of 2004. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#1 [google.com] for an explanati
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"Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time."
The diversification and especially the decline of technical stuff is a rather obvious consequence of a still exponentially increasing number of Internet users. Average people, to be precise - i.e not computer enthusiasts, engineers and scientists. Hence while in absolute terms a techn
hyperlinked 'trends service' (Score:1)
then maybe submitter would be mor pleasant with his choice of hyperlink text.
Here is a nice link Google Trends [google.com]
have a nice day.
Oh oh oh. almost forgot, this is about 9 ice ages old. oh ohoh
do a search for
lemon, lime [google.com]
it is by far the best search you can do on trends! awesome!!
rel=nofollow (Score:1)
Holy Nation of Pervs, Batman ... (Score:5, Funny)
Now we can compare! (Score:2, Funny)
An Upward Trend for Google (Score:1)
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Firefox, Opera, ie (Score:5, Insightful)
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Food for thought... (Score:2, Interesting)
CowboyNeal's been hoaxed by a marketer (Score:3, Informative)
One Solid Trend (Score:3, Informative)
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+sony&ctab=
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Top ten cities searching for porn:
Top ten regions:
Of course these will be a little skewed due to language differences. But interesting nonetheless.
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KFG
The Microsoft Monopoly (Score:1)
Seasonality (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ice+cream%2C+snowb
Old news (Score:4, Informative)
Another Scary Trend (Score:1)
An even Scarier Trend (Score:2)
It's truly scary when you realize why the parent trend looks that way.
Re:An even Scarier Trend (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=france%2C+paris%2C
Wheat from the chaff? (Score:2)
wheat + chaff [google.com] :)
s/nouns/adjectives and Scary Trend dissappears (Score:2)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Japanese%2C+Europe a n%2C+American%2C+Chinese%2C+Canadian&ctab=1&geo=al l&date=all [google.com]
Someone call Maslow (Score:2, Interesting)
Modern culture's hierarchy has changed!
New Maslow [google.com]
/idle speculation
Does not compute (Score:2)
It would have to mean that less people are searching, because what else would these mysterious people be using to search with if not google? The browserbar that some spammer hijacked onto th
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Or people were using something other than Google to search. Perhaps Yahoo or MSN?
It did mention "declining popularity of Google" as a possibility.
BlogScope (Score:2, Interesting)
Google Trends comfirms it (Score:1)
Someone please help me (Score:2)
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Slashdot vs. Digg (Score:2)
*likes
Singular v. plural (Score:4, Interesting)
Man v. Woman
http://www.google.com/trends?q=man%2C+woman&ctab=
Men v. Women
http://www.google.com/trends?q=men%2C+women&ctab=
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A simple explanation (Score:2)
Popularity is not popularity (Score:1)
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My research (Score:3, Funny)
Old news, technically (Score:1)
No units, what's the point (Score:2)
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Telling stories with lies, damned lies and trends (Score:2)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+politicians% 2C+internet%2C+internets%2C+email&ctab=1&geo=all&d ate=all [google.com]
i.e, everyone wants to know where sex can be found, a heck of a lot of people want to know where their email is, a elite minority are looking for that internet that was sent them but never arrived, "internets" clearly remain off the practical radar for now, and no-one cares at all where their politicians are?
I'm beginning to think this is a ma
Evil (Score:1)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+evil%2C+sat
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Look at results for Women, Woman (Score:1)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=women&ctab=1&geo=al l&date=all [google.com]
Pretty crazy that Iran and india are the top searchers for those words.
I'm baffled, if they want porn, they should be searching that.
The google results for women/woman yield wikipedia and a bunch of informative sites about womens's health!
Very interesting, also looking at cross country skiing shows Canada has large interest in the sport, and ottawa is the capital
Top searches for 'Google Trends' (Score:1)
So what's that all about?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22google+trends%2
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Hope this one does
Google Trends use of geolocation (Score:2)
Isn't Google Trends geolocation inherently innacurate? As I understand, it is using your IP address to determine your location, but this only gives you the location of your ISP router, and the two can be different by hundreds of miles. Since ISP routers tend to be located in urban areas, they tend to get a disproportionate amount of traffic. There was an interesting article about the problems with Google Trends [andrewu.co.uk], pointing out how for example the suburbs of Milton Keynes in England are constantly highly ranke
Thank goodness (Score:1)
Fixed Summary (Score:2)
In short one can use Google trends to figure out what's hot and what's not amongst those Internet users that search on Google and perhaps even find cyclic patterns to pick best time to advertise on Google.
Maybe that sounds picky, but you have to consider the sample before you start making conclusions and generalizations.
Nigel:It really puts perspective on things,though (Score:2)
Hmm (Score:1)
Some more comparisons.. (Score:2)
California beats Florida (and Hawaii) [google.com]
Right beats left [google.com]
MIT > all [google.com]
And apparently, the number of people who say tomato almost exactly matches the number who say tomato, although it varies slightly by city as seen in the chart at the bottom. http://www.google.com/trends?q=tomato%2C+tomato&ct ab=0&geo=all&date=all [google.com]
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fucking douchebag. lets get some mints and shove them in his eyes!
man, dane cook kills me.
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And just because it doesn't have the latest data, doesn't invalidate it's use for tr
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