More Google Trends Manipulations

Another day, another Google Trends abuse. As spotted at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Google Trends on July 13th was showing “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ” as the number one hot trend amongst blogs, news sites, and so on. I personally see it when I navigate back to July 13th in Google Trends. This comes right after the display […]

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Google Trends Issues
Another day, another Google Trends abuse. As spotted at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Google Trends on July 13th was showing “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ” as the number one hot trend amongst blogs, news sites, and so on. I personally see it when I navigate back to July 13th in Google Trends.

This comes right after the display of a swastika on Google Trends just last week. What is next?


Postscript: TechCrunch reports even more continued Google Trends attacks.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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