Google Trends
zeitgeist n. - the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
These days, what better way to get a sense of the cultural climate than through search engine queries?
Every week, Google releases its Zeitgeist, which reveals the week's top gaining queries. No surprise that NFL draft is at the top of the most recent list. Colbert is 11!
Today they released a new tool, Google Trends, which takes the information to a new level, allowing you to see the traffic trends over time of particular queries, and more interestingly, comparisons between the trends of multiple queries. For instance, chang is a way more popular query than hubert (though I seem to be slipping a little in 2006):
And of course, the most popular source of queries on my name is Honolulu. Gina, stop searching for me on Google all day and get back to studying. It's kind of embarrassing, and very unproductive. What's that? UH's quarterback was named Chang? Oh... :(
I'll buy dinner for the first person who can find a query more popular than sex...I'm doubtful it even exists, but if you find it, to Mendy's we'll go!*
* Google employees not eligible
These days, what better way to get a sense of the cultural climate than through search engine queries?
Every week, Google releases its Zeitgeist, which reveals the week's top gaining queries. No surprise that NFL draft is at the top of the most recent list. Colbert is 11!
Today they released a new tool, Google Trends, which takes the information to a new level, allowing you to see the traffic trends over time of particular queries, and more interestingly, comparisons between the trends of multiple queries. For instance, chang is a way more popular query than hubert (though I seem to be slipping a little in 2006):
And of course, the most popular source of queries on my name is Honolulu. Gina, stop searching for me on Google all day and get back to studying. It's kind of embarrassing, and very unproductive. What's that? UH's quarterback was named Chang? Oh... :(
I'll buy dinner for the first person who can find a query more popular than sex...I'm doubtful it even exists, but if you find it, to Mendy's we'll go!*
* Google employees not eligible
posted by Chang Kim at Wednesday, May 10, 2006
11 Comments:
Hehheh... Timmy Chang isn't breaking any records this year. Cool feature!
nothing like a free dinner to motivate
Didn't you read the fine print? Google employees not eligible.
:)
bah
You would think putting the two together would be gold, but no, people just aren't looking for free sex.
I need Timmy to make the NFL so that I can reestablish my dominance over Hpan.
well 'music' and 'video' come pretty close- http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+music%2C+video&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+new%2C+and&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
"free" + "and"
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+how&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
"how"
i would play, but after clicking on all of gerald's links, google thinks i'm a bot. you guys should just use kittenauth.
Thanks for the Google Trends info. Very cool.
This is a good one:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=up%2Cdown&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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