Making the Google Trends volume cut: Gates, Winer, Scoble, Godin |
Google (disclaimer: I own GOOG stock) has released a new trends labs service [well, not new, it was available in May] which lets you analyze search terms with key events linked like they’ve been doing with their finance section.
Low volume queries don’t make the cut, so using this for vanity purposes is out unless you are people like Tom Cruise, Bill Gates or Drudge.
Sure, a few bloggers made the cut like Dave Winer (most searches in San Francisco geographically) and Robert Scoble (Seattle most searches). Seth Godin (New York most searches) made it but has no articles referencing him, how does that compute?
By doing a trends search (pictured at the top of the post) for the keyword “hmm” I discovered that people in Seoul, South Korea geographically searched the most. Maybe I should hire a correspondent from South Korea for this blog?
Update 8/27/2006 4:56am PST: Thanks to Nathan for reminding me through a trackback below that Google Trends isn’t really “new” as I wrote above. Heck, I even wrote about it back in May here. My bad there, sorry about that.
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