Ever Wonder What Everyone Else Is Googling?
You're not the only one interested in albino lemurs!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Every day, millions of people turn to Google to find the answers to life's burning questions; What did Paris Hilton do last night? What's the best chili recipe? How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? And so on. So as we query the search engine for these bits of knowledge, we largely do so separated from everyone else on the Internet. The world's largest virtual gathering point essentially treats each user as the only person in the world. Imagine going to the Super Bowl, but instead of sitting in a crowd, you're in a completely sealed off booth with a little television screen that only watches the game on the field and gives no hint that anyone else is watching the game.
This week Google launched the experimental "Trends" service. Here you can see what the top search terms are for the day. It's an interesting glimpse into the current mood and mindset of the collective population of the Internet. Or, if today is any indication, a slightly disturbing one ("microwaved baby" is the #3 term). You can see the top 100 overall terms for the last 24 hours. You can also do a popularity comparison of search terms by entering two terms in the search box on the Trends page, separated by a comma.
Here's a chart comparing search popularity between the terms WindowBlinds and MSStyles.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:31 PM
And what happened mid 2006?
hm... I might try this for various gadget engines...
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:30 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:35 PM
Zubaz is a Zoomba phanboi like seldomseen
Reply #8 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:11 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:30 PM
it's fun but, seriously not sure of it's real accuracy?
Reply #10 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:42 PM
also to be fair how many of those were actual searches for Window Blinds?
it's fun but, seriously not sure of it's real accuracy?
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ROFL...nevermind, *now* it works.
Reply #11 Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:08 AM
Google Trends can be interesting but the problem is that generic terms get intermixed and difficult to evaluate.
Like someone mentioned, windowblinds could be counting window blinds. Key words like Style and XP get massive hits (XP and Style or even as one word is a common search item not related a particular program).
But for unique key words like Stardock or Microsoft or deviantART it's useful.
Reply #12 Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:32 AM
Reply #13 Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:37 AM
I never use Google for anything, but still it's scary stuff.
Reply #14 Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:43 AM
You just lost the right to criticize my colorful sentences for doing that!!
Reply #15 Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:56 AM
Liar! I've sent you mail and you have read it. A HA!
Reply #16 Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:02 PM
Ah, but I used Hotmail to read it.
So technically, I used a Microsoft service to access something YOU elected to forward via a Google service, meaning I was telling the truth.....AAAND, how dare you make me the unwitting participant/recipient to something I so vehemently despise, object to, oppose, dislike, hate and ooh, ooh, you know what I mean. We'll have to do it again sometime soon....been meaning to catch up for ages now, but I've been so easily distracted/waylaid lately and keep finding myself doing stuff I hadn't planned. You know what it's like, you have plans but your wife, kids and or mother have different ideas.
Reply #17 Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:34 PM
That's nothing new though. The old TV shows like Rockford file *cough* aging myself *cough* did stories on the various industries pre-desktop PC revolution. If it's going to happen I'd rather it be more public than out-of-sight out-of-mind so to speak.
Reply #18 Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:23 PM
(blue) windowblinds, (red) stylexp, (orange) uxtheme
Reply #19 Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:55 PM
Scary.
Go WB !!! 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:23 PM