Google Trends

[Dandaman]

Did a search and didn't find anything.

http://www.google.com/trends

fun to play with...

daniel

 

[amateurmacfreak]

Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Kinda oddish... in a way.
But I like it.
'Tis pretty fun. I like the city part, to see which city viewed what the most.

 

[EricNau]

It's kinda fun ...for awhile.

 

[w_parietti22]

I played around with it today and I thought it was pretty cool.

 

[amateurmacfreak]

I played around with it today and I thought it was pretty cool.

Yeah. It's fun to compare stuff.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=imac,+ipod&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Only I would compare those 2! Or wouldn't some of you guys too??

 

[killuminati]

I did the term NHL. I can't believe it, Canada is 1 obviously but the US is 7?! There are 5 countries that don't even have the NHL whose citizens are searching for NHL more than the US.

 

[Shamus]

As most have said, it is kinda fun to play around with. But what is the actual use of it? Sure, you can analyse statistical data from the net, but other than that....not much point to it.

 

[killuminati]

As most have said, it is kinda fun to play around with. But what is the actual use of it? Sure, you can analyse statistical data from the net, but other than that....not much point to it.

Well maybe it is useful for small businesses because they can find out where people are interested in them and all that other stuff.

 

[redAPPLE]

I did the term NHL. I can't believe it, Canada is 1 obviously but the US is 7?! There are 5 countries that don't even have the NHL whose citizens are searching for NHL more than the US.

in case you didn't notice , there are foreigners that play in the nhl.

there is this chinese nba player. i would bet, more chinese have searched his name than north americans.

 

[w_parietti22]

whoa. search for MySpace. Its crazy.

 

[w_parietti22]

I did the term NHL. I can't believe it, Canada is 1 obviously but the US is 7?! There are 5 countries that don't even have the NHL whose citizens are searching for NHL more than the US.

Its possible that people in the US already know that NHL is http://www.nhl.com and don't need to search for it.

 

[eMac4ever]

The cities look a little messed up because

Google Trends first looks at a sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the same city. The city ranking you see on the page and the bar charts alongside each city name both represent this ratio.

- Google

So I think, they pick the city with the highest percentage of searches being the chosen term.