I was wondering why you didn't include and so I plunked it in there and then realized why you didn't include facebook: <a href="https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20%2Fm%2F0gh6xtp%2C%20%2Fm%2F0b2334%2C%20%2Fm%2F0289n8t%2C%20%2Fm%2F02y1vz&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...</a>
As a side note, I really enjoy seeing Google Trends information. I really hope this is one Google dont take from us.<p>And I'd love Google to build on their Public Data explorer. There is so much need and value for a business and the wider public for a central data repository that has good cutting and display options. And a business could easily pay for a private corner to link to these data sets. If this Public Data tool had been a bit further ahead I suspect it could have taken a chunk the massively growing space now being filled by Tableau and other BI solutions.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory</a>
A side note on Google Trends: you can't use Google Trends as statistical evidence that a startup is doing better than another because there are hundreds of different reasons why people might <i>Google</i> a startup, and some might be more biased than others. (e.g. Googling "what the heck is Reddit" which might be less likely to happen for Facebook, yet is not fully indicative of business success/failure).<p>It's still fun for making silly correlations, though.
Interesting to see Snapchat and Instagram in there: <a href="https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20%2Fm%2F0b2334%2C%20%2Fm%2F0289n8t%2C%20%2Fm%2F0glpjll%2C%20%2Fm%2F0nbtf_n&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...</a>
As much as we like to say bad things about Marissa Mayer (I don't know her in person so she might be truly awful in person I don't know) but she might have made the right call in buying Tumblr. I think Tumblr still has value. When the teens who use tumblr today become older, there might even be some emotional/sentimental value in Tumblr for them.
I was curious about the downward trend in Twitter and Facebook at about the same time. I nknow it doesn't imply causation, but adding "Snowden" shows the downward trend for Twitter begins about the same time. It is hard to see for Facebook because it trends so highly, but its downward trend is around the same time.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0289n8t%2C%20Snowden&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0289n8t%2C%20...</a><p>Perhaps there is indeed hope that a generation of people are becoming more aware of their options with regards to privacy and anonymity online.<p>Or perhaps it can more accurately be attributed to a switch to Snapchat or other social media providers.
Ok, but let's not forget that half of internet is not there. E.g. Chinese people do not use Google. If we could agregate data qq.com could very well be above them all.
I like the growth chart for Reddit alone:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0b2334" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0b2334</a>
Personal anecdote: I will google "<person> Twitter" to get their Twitter feed so I wonder how many of those searches are not necessarily interest in the service rather interest in a specific person using the service.
Interesting. I feel like you get Google search results for Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter when you accidentally type in one of those as a search term instead of a URL. (Happens to the best of us, pretty sure I've searched for "Google" before.)<p>Google+ is different in that the URL is plus.google.com, so I think "plus" would be the misfire in that case.