Google News, Inside.

Using Trends to Predict the Economy

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 Announces Flu Trends for 16 Countries

Early this morning, Google announced that they are now providing flu trends for 16 more countries. Additionally, flu trends is available in 37 different languages now.

Flu trends was originally announced in November 2008.
Here’s a quick video about the announcement.

Flu Trends in Mexico

Google has introduced a new trends tracking system for flu trends in Mexico. It’s pretty much the same as the US version, just specific to Mexico’s territories.

Google Trends RSS

Google Trends is an awesome product that let’s you check out all the latest trends within Google Search. It let’s you know all the latest and definitely hottest news happening right now.
Let’s be honest. Right now is all that matters anymore. 5 minutes doesn’t matter, 10 minutes ago doesn’t matter, and certainly [...]

Google Trends and Offends with ASCII Art of 9/11

Another bug with a Google product. This time, it’s with Google Trends. As Barry reported at SEL, there was some ASCII art of 9/11 in the latest trends.

This specific trend seems to be originating from Sacromento, CA. Each area can have its own trend because the way Google Trends actually works is [...]

Ironic, Lively is Dead.

I find it ironic that a project named Lively is, well, dead.
Google announced that they are shutting down the beta project called Lively.
Here’s a short excerpt from the post about why it’s being shut down.
That’s why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half [...]

Google Trends Errors

A number of discussions have been floating around today about Google Trends, but one thing I noticed is that no matter which search term I put in, it returns with a big fat “We’re sorry.”

I know, I know, it’s still in “beta”.
Oh, quick update, I just tried another search and it looks like they’re doing [...]

Hour by Hour, Trend by Trend

Announced just yesterday, Google Trends will now be updated every hour (compared to the previous monthly updates.) Google also released a feed that will let you monitor all the “hot trends” of today. You can even add it directly to your Google Reader — or you could add our feed if you can’t live without it wanted to. Having this kind of daily trend analysis access will be great for search engine optimization. You will be allowed to access today’s hottest news, today’s hottest topics, and today’s hottest keywords. Until now, the SEO industry has been forced to depend on Wordtracker, Yahoo!’s Overture tool, just to name a few among many other types of trend analysis tools out there. This is a great improvement and now I’m looking to see what Google will release the Google Trends API so we can access the data outside of Google.