Archive for the ‘google trends’ Category

Finding the Most Popular Regions for Search Categories

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Google Trends is great for tracking (and comparing) individual keywords. But what if you want to see results for a broader category, or a general idea, rather than for individual products or for specific instances of the idea?

Formatting Google Trends Queries

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 ...

Introduction to Google Trends (Part Three)

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 ...

Introduction to Google Trends (Part Two)

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. ...

Introduction to Google Trends (Part One)

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 ...