I’ve always been fond of Google’s annual Zeitgeist project where they show search term stats for the year and wished we could run some of our own queries on the data. Well today my wish has come true thanks to Google Trends. I just ran the obligatory GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) search comparison for 2006.

Interesting to see that the term Yahoo is getting the most search love, but who would be searching for “google” on Google, I guess. The news part has Microsoft trending ahead so far. Then check out the numbers by locale:

While this provides some fun stats comparisons, I’m also interested in Google Coop which allows users to add up to 1000 annotations to topics. My Google Coop profile. I’ve still got a lot to learn with this one [Google Coop developer docs].

Tomorrow I’m going to take a look at the new version of Google Desktop which includes the ability to take the gadgets to the desktop. Curious if my Keno game will port over with no additional modification.

Next week it sounds like Clipmarks et al will be getting some competition with the release of Google Notebook which Phillip Lennsen describes as: “… a little notes window that follows you from the Google search results to other sites, allowing you to collect bits and pieces of information. You can also make public parts of Google Notebook to share it with others.”

Wow, what a busy day for Google. I notice their stock didn’t do much today. Wonder what tomorrow’s reaction will hold? What do readers think of all these new Google goodies today?

And let’s not forget E3 is still rocking along. What a busy week all around. See you on the other side of night.

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