Google Trends

[Becky]

Ever wonder what the rest of the world has been 'Googling' for recently? If you have, you wouldn't be alone. Google have now released a tool which allows you to discover just that: Google Trends.

Just type in anything, and it will show you various statistics relating to how, when and where that term has been 'Googled'. For example, typing in 'monkey' will bring up a graph of the trend of searches for 'monkey' over time, and it will even bring up news explaining the trends. In this case, one of the points raised shows that a lot of people searched for 'monkey' when the year of the monkey came about.

Needless to say, this could be a useful tool for webmasters everywhere. Or just for the more curious folk among us!

For more information on Google Trends, see the site.

 

[itsme]

Nice one SB

 

[Quadophile]

Very interesting, thanks for posting it

 

[michael 118]

Thanks Sexy Bex, some interesting stuff can be found like typing in PcReview

 

[Ian]

I've just thought, if they can make graphs like that then they obviously log every IP and search query used, and then to a geographic IP lookup.

Very interesting! Didn't the US government one data very similar to this in a court case a while back? They should just use this

 

[muckshifter]

I've just thought, if they can make graphs like that then they obviously log every IP and search query used, and then to a geographic IP lookup.

Very interesting! Didn't the US government one data very similar to this in a court case a while back? They should just use this

Ian ... welcome to 'The Secret Service' ...