Trending Google Search Terms Over Time

by on Jan 11, 2010 | 0 comments

A neat tool that Google makes available is Google Trends which shows you historical statistics on search terms. Wikipedia has a good explanation:

Google Trends [...] shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.

Basically, you can see how popular a particular search string is compared to all the searches run against Google. For example, if you search for “Windows 7″, you can see it has become quite a popular search recently whereas “Windows 2000″ has died down over time.

The topic you are searching has to be a reasonably popular (so unless you have a famous name, trending your name probably will not work), but this can be a great research tool for pop culture analysis.

Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
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