Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In your everyday Google search, ANDs are assumed automatically while ORs must be specified. So if I search for "orange juice" concentrate, I'll get only pages that have both the phrase "orange juice" and the word concentrate in them. If I want pages with either "orange juice" or concentrate, I'll do an ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Facebook Lexicon is another online tool to analyze trends in words over time. But while Google Trends shows query-based trends, Facebook Lexicon demonstrates content-based trends.
Facebook
For those of you who really don't know, Facebook is a social networking tool that transports your circle of friends to an online arena. Says their ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Google recently announced that they have indexed over 1 trillion unique web pages. You might remember a similar announcement in 2000, when their index hit one billion.
The post brings up a good question about the Web that all search engines must consider: what defines a unique page? Two different URLs could ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
This is my final introductory post for Google Trends. Previous posts dealt with the scaling and normalizing of data (Part One) and comparing terms across regions (Part Two).
Today I'm just going to talk about exporting data. This is a new feature in Google Trends and is only available if you ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Here's part two of my introduction to Google Trends. Last post we only dealt with the main line graph of search volume -- this time we're going to look at the Regions, Cities and Languages charts. We'll also compare multiple search terms and unleash the true Power of the Trends. ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Google Trends is, as the logo suggests, still a part of Google Labs, making it a sister tool to Google Suggest, Google Mars and Google Sets. With Google Trends, you can track the popularity of search terms, or keywords, over time. I used this tool last month to try correlating ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Welcome to TrendsLog's first post!
The tubes, of course, abound with valuable information (and plenty of less-than-valuable content). Like in a university library, visitors can search for, access, and digest all the knowledge they want. Like in an international newspaper, subscribers can browse and read articles about all sorts of current ...
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