SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 25, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Google Trends
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mr. Google, Tear Down This Google Trends Wall!
About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company’s websites oddly had no data available — Google’s own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft but gives away nothing about itself. The same is true for the newly-released Google Ad Planner […]
Google Ad Planner Launches, Offers Site Demographic Profiles
Google has launched Google Ad Planner as an invite-only beta. It’s designed to allow advertisers to identify sites with demographics they’re interested in — even sites that aren’t part of Google’s advertising network.
Google The “Moral Compass” Of The US Justice System?
What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer from the New York Times documents a case that is underway in the US legal system where Google Trends was brought in to determine the morality of what is sexually explicit content. The case is about a Florida-based porn web site that the state wants to prove is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 23, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
George Carlin’s Death Spikes Searches For His Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV
I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous "seven words you can’t say on TV." Among the things people are seeking:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites
Google has launched a major addition to Google Trends named Trends for Web Sites. Trends for Web Sites extends Google Trends by enabling you to search for web site addresses, as opposed to just searching for trends by keyword. R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management, told me that by entering a domain name into […]
Human Hardware: Risk vs Reward, Expressed Through Search
We are emotional creatures. In fact, we are the most emotional creatures on the planet. Emotions are what cause us to act. The very word emotion means “to move” in Latin. Emotions move us to action. They cause us to avoid danger and pursue pleasure. They propel us to genetic propagation and steer us from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 10, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Adds Numeric Scale And CSV Downloads To Google Trends
Google Trends has been a popular tool since its launch in 2006. It is one of several free tools that provides some helpful insight into search query popularity and by extension search volumes (although the tool doesn’t explicitly report on search volumes). Since launch Google has added features, such as “hot trends” and country/city where […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 18, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Midwest Earthquake & Search Engine Responses
The Midwest of the US was rocked by an unusual 5.2 earthquake. Looking at Google Trends, which shows popular recent queries, I can see people immediately hit the search engines with queries like illinois earthquake, chicago earthquake, and midwest earthquake. So how did the search engines do? Especially when search engines are supposed to be […]
Facebook Adds Lexicon And “Friend Feed” Style Outside Activity Alerts
Facebook hasn’t yet added web search but it is allowing users to import content from third-party sites. Users are now permitted to import stories and content (into their mini-feeds) from a handful of sites: Flickr, Yelp, Picasa, and del.icio.us to start with, Digg and others to come. The intention is to enable people to do […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Super Tuesday, Internet Style: How We’re Using The Web In The 2008 Elections
Today is Super Tuesday, which means that voters in 24 states are carefully reviewing their candidate research and doing last minute thoughtful analysis in preparation for voting in the primaries. Well, maybe that’s hopeful optimism, but in any case, the place these voters are turning to for information is increasingly the internet. Makes sense, as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches Google Checkout Trends
The Google Checkout blog announced that they have launched Google Checkout Trends. Google Checkout Trends is a flavor of Google Trends, but limits the data to that collected from Google Checkout merchants. It basically shows you what people are buying and selling online via Google Checkout. You can plug in one keyword or several keywords […]
Should All These Searches Be Forgotten?
The big search engines released end-of-the-year lists that intrigue and entertain. They can also remind us of the fundamentals of search user behavior. Each year when we look back at top searches, we get to see what searchers are up to and measure the strides in human development over the last twelve months. Our curiosity. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Flight Tracking, Airport Conditions, Real-Time Traffic, & Other Thanksgiving Search Tips
With the US about to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, how are the major search engines gearing up to support an onslaught of Thanksgiving queries? Let’s take a look at how you can use them, ranging from flight tracking tools to special "shortcut" or "smart answer" boxes leading to related information. Many people travel by […]
Forget Black Friday! Are You Ready For Holiday Season’s Cyber Mondays?
“Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year for U.S. brick-and-mortar retailers. But, for each Monday after Black Friday, consumer searches spike up on the internet and online retail websites enjoy their highest traffic and associated sales of the year. Search engine use is directly impacting businesses during this […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Facebook’s Hot, At Least As A Top Search Term
Facebook might not be more popular than sex, but it’s getting there — at least as a rival to sex as something people search on. Below, a look at Facebook’s new entry into a top search terms list and related stats, along the way — including which country searches for Facebook the most (hint: how […]
Top Countries To Search On Sex, Hitler, Viagra, Jihad & Hangover
Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what? from Reuters reports on keywords released by Google by country. Reuters ordered the list by country that is most likely to search on certain words. Here is a brief rundown:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Trends Now Updated Hourly
The Google Blog announced today that Google Trends is now updated every hour. In the past, it was just updated monthly with the latest statistics on searches. If you want to track the latest hot trends by hour, you can subscribe to the hourly Hot Trends Atom Feed or add a Google Gadget to your […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Tis The Season To Optimize For The Holidays
Prediction: Any day now, you’re going to walk into a retail store and see Christmas products for sale. I know it’s only August. I know the holidays are more than four months away. But that won’t stop your favorite store from getting a jump on the shopping season. And it shouldn’t stop you from preparing […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Spot Trends With SEOmoz’s Popular Searches Tool
To spot popular search trends, you can always use our list of search research resources. But want to look across a range of various “What’s Hot” reports? Try SEOmoz’s new Popular Searches tool. As SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin explains, explains the new tool aggregates data from several places that document “rising trends and consistently buzz-worthy terms […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 31, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Doing Keyword Research? Here Are Some Resources To Help!
Search term research is one of the fundamental activities for a successful search marketing campaign. You’ve got to know the words people are using if you want to target them properly. To help, I’ve expanded the Search Term Research section of Search Engine Land to list a variety of resources and tools you can consult. […]
Apple iPhone Craze: A Search Volume Look
Hitwise sent me some data on the search volume for the term “iPhone.” As many of you know, Apple is releasing the iPhone this Friday, and the press and craze over this product is unprecedented. Just take a glance at the coverage at Techmeme and you can see, the news reports are overwhelming, to say […]
May 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from May 2007: