Facebook Lexicon: An Introduction

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 ...

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 ...