Topic: Google Trends

Google Hot Trends, Yahoo Buzz Index: Tracking Tools For Traditional Marketing

Search Engine Journal compares Google’s recently introduced “Hot Trends” database with the Yahoo Buzz Index. (Barry Schwartz wrote extensively about Hot Trends previously.) These tools, while fun and interesting, are also potentially important as business intelligence and data mining tools and increasingly useful to track the efficacy of offline marketing. Whatever their problems and challenges […]

Google Meme: Hot Trends Added To Google Trends

Google has launched a meme-like feature to Google Trends. The Google Trends home page now has a section named “Hot Trends,” which shows the hottest queries for the day. You can also look back historically and see the hottest queries for that day. Plus, Google Trends upgraded the trends history to show not only country […]

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Google’s Not So Top Terms & Top US Gainers For 2006

Last week, I wrote The Lies Of Top Search Terms Of The Year covering how the top terms of 2006 from Google turned out not to be the top terms at all in raw popularity. I caught up with Google at the end of that week to talk about this more but didn’t have a […]

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The Lies Of Top Search Terms Of The Year

  I wanted to make some time and dive deep into the issue of why all those top search terms from the various search engines don’t match. Others have thankfully been doing that. The short answer, as I’ve written before, is that they are all heavily filtered. That’s why you don’t see popular terms like […]

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New York Times On Buzz Search

Brands for the Chattering Masses from the New York Times covers a search engine most people can’t afford, the "buzz" search that Nielsen BuzzMetrics operates, along with those from others. The idea is that these services can scan what’s being posted on the web, in blogs and elsewhere, and generate buzz reports for companies. Personally, […]