Google Trends Launches

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1. Jeroen
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:13 pm

   I’m a bit disappointed by the whole thing. Not about the power of the tool, but the the lack of interaction, no fancy sliders and form elements. The page needs to reload to often in my opinion. Hope it still expands

2. Haochi
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:13 pm

   This looks just like Google Finance, from the label to the news section. You can actually link the image to your site and see updates.

3. TheWeb20Dev
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:21 pm

   Cool tool. Is it beta?

4. Haochi
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

   >Cool tool. Is it beta?
   This time Google use “Google Labs” on the logo instead of saying it’s beta.

5. Marcus Kazmierczak
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

   The image link has an extra w in the front.

6. chris
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

   Could this have been inspired in part by Indeed.com’s Jobtrends graphs?

   http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends

7. Mario
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:29 pm

   I guess it would be quite interesting if, besides reporting on search terms popularity, Google Trends also reported web sites traffic like Alexa does.

   Google certainly has the resources and the info feed to do so. Their toolbar must be much more popular than Alexa’s own (remember, the data for that kind of analysis comes from the toolbars). Their rankings could be even more accurate than Alexa’s.

8. Haochi
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 1:57 pm

   Google Co-op is also up now. Check it out.

9. Ken Rossi : CivilNetizen.com
   

   May 10th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

   It would be great if the site actually loaded. I am happy to say however that I got my Google Analytics invite today which I am totally stoked about.

10. Ken Rossi : CivilNetizen.com
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

    Waited 8 months for it.

11. Don Wilson
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    Nothing too amazing to me.

12. Derek Organ
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 3:09 pm

    Great tool although occasionally double meanings of words can catch you out.. i noticed that you can use the ‘-’ operator to exclude words so for example i did a search on “googe -shares, yahoo -shares, msn -shares” just as a test and it seems to work. The reason I did this is because all the news items seemed to be about shares. Not really that useful in this case but i’m sure it could be useful. I could see an API being very userful for history style mashups.

    funny search : good, evil

    football search:
    david beckham, ronaldinho

13. Search Engines WEB
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

    It IS a good start - archiving relatively less popular terms might have put a drain on their resources.

    It is good to compare this term with the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=techcrunch

    http://inventory.overture.com/.....techcrunch

14. met
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

    People search for “google” on google? (oh, the where am i crowd )

15. Pete Cashmore
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    “Their rankings could be even more accurate than Alexa’s.”

    Heck, the numbers you make up in your head are more accurate than Alexa’s.

16. James Kim
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm

    Now I’m waiting for the mashup that lets me see Google Trends with Google Finance so I can compare AAPL with APPLE COMPUTER or IPOD. Although searches for IPOD seem to be trending down.

17. Dave
    

    May 10th, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    This is actually great… Could be very useful.

    Shocking statistics. Who would have thought.
    http://www.google.com/trends?q.....mp;geo=all

18. Mohamed El-Kamony
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 5:12 am

    A pretty cool toy that is very useful in marketing and trend analysis.

19. CoryS
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 5:47 am

    Could be really cool and the fact that it highlights possible relevant news stories is a really interesting add.

    Its missing something that seems like a critical element the quant gurus at Google would be proud of - what the Y-bar is in a numerical sense. Google also highlights, “Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter…” so its a view of Google search traffic and not the web’s which may or may not be statistically relevant. If Google could provide some stats on how it is, that would be cool.

    Like Alexa.com, when web traffic is reported in a relative fashion, its a good directional tool, but not laser sharp since marketers need to measure quantitative traffic to understand ROMI, not relative traffic to see that you’re beating up on someone else.

20. Ohad
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 8:13 am

    Even though the google trends tool is a bit immature, it’s power to anyone who is marketing oriented is amazing. I am sure that in time it will grow and add many more features that we will like and depend upon. to read more about this go to http://ohad-news.blogspot.com

21. Matthias
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 9:17 am

    It’s fun to compare terms with this great tool: Madrid = Prada, London = Gucci. San Diego = Burger, Rome = Spaghetti

22. danofthenorthstar
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 10:50 am

    That’s a very clever app! Someday it will make money for sure. That’s something only “rogue scientists” can create.

23. Zakir
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    The article links are oh so outdated …. (Anyone listening at Google) .. it’s better not to have them coz most of the articles have been removed!

24. salpet
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

    Guess google cant seem to stop from introducing new things, cool anyway

    http://salpet.com/13/google-goes-trends/trackback/

25. Jon
    

    May 12th, 2006 at 11:53 pm

    You know this is a direct result of that subpoena the federal gov’t handed out to all the search engines. They said they wanted the data for general pedophile trends; now the feds have all the data on a silver platter…without handing over trade secrets, or personal data…..Brilliant!

26. Anonymous Coward
    

    May 13th, 2006 at 3:45 am

    There’s also http://buzz.yahoo.com

27. undoweb
    

    May 24th, 2006 at 6:56 am

    Whell, the idea is very cool. I like everithing at google!

28. Tibo
    

    August 14th, 2006 at 9:27 pm

    You know this is a direct result of that subpoena the federal gov’t handed out to all the search engines. They said they wanted the data for general pedophile trends; now the feds have all the data on a silver platter…without handing over trade secrets, or personal data…..Brilliant!

    http://jpcache.com/

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    August 17th, 2006 at 4:59 am

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30. upnorth
    

    August 28th, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    Try searching for “franchise.” The most popular city: Alphretta, GA. What the hell is in Alphretta that wants info. of franchising so badly?

31. web hosting company
    

    September 21st, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Google trends says “Google is bigger than God”.
    http://www.google.com/trends?q.....mp;geo=all