Using Trends to Predict the Economy
Posted at 12:12pm EST on 11/04/2009
Google is a powerful company, there’s no doubt about that. Google has access to some of the most valuable data in the world because of search tracking. It’s able to use search data to show trending of what’s being searched and therefore, can predict events like Black Friday.
It’s truly incredible to see what Google can do with its search data. But the real question is: are they responsible with their search data? Stay tuned for another post on privacy and Google soon.
via Google Retail
Dataflurry
Nov 9th, 2009
That is amazing, Google trends is truly an amazing data tracking tool
Nick @ Brick Marketing
Nov 11th, 2009
I know, Google could probably put together predictions and trends before most of the world even knows what they might be.
Jonathan Dingman
Nov 11th, 2009
that wouldn’t surprise me at all.
since a lot of people just go directly to google to find anything, it’s easy to detect major trends