Internet Fun and Games: Google Trends

Rob has a pointer to one of the newest analysis tools from Google – Google Trends.

It allows one to search which terms are being used most frequently in Google searches, including comparatively by entering several different key words. The frequency with which these terms have been used, going back to 2004, is then plotted on a graph.

Google Trends

I ran some comparative analysis that is alternately fascinating, ironic and meaningless. Endless fun and games here.

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Thanks for the reference, Ian. Rob Millard

[...] I’ve already written on Google Trends, here. The Savvy Speechwriter can easily see what is the relative importance in Google search ranking between two or more keywords. For the Global Warming speech you might want to compare three main forms of power generation. One theme in your speech could be a comment on the relative interest in nuclear power and wind energy since 2004. Also, dive into the major news stories flagged on the chart that stimulated an uptick in past Google searches. Note rankings by Cities, Regions and Languages. Your audience might be interested to hear about thee variations. [...]

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