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Chart: Seasonal search trends

7 pointsby gordianknotabout 17 years ago
Google Trends is much more elucidating than Alexa. An extremely powerful tool for monitoring points of consciousness.<p>"Sex" is a particularly interesting argument: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+porn&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0<p>Note Ramadan: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=SA&#38;geor=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0 (...and the correlation between Saudi news stories including "sex" and "woman")<p>Can't wait for the Trends API.

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gordianknotabout 17 years ago
Can't wait for the Google Trends API.<p>Holiday sex searches skyrocket, news stories plummet: <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+porn&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+porn&#38;ctab=0&#38;ge...</a><p>Ramadan? <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=SA&#38;geor=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&#38;ctab=0&#38;g...</a> (note the Saudi news correlation)<p>Edit: No coding over Christmas: <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=html%2C+php%2C+javascript%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+perl&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=html%2C+php%2C+javascript%2C+...</a>
jgrahamcabout 17 years ago
<a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=eggs%2C+roses%2C+tree%2C+turkey&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=eggs%2C+roses%2C+tree%2C+turk...</a><p>If you just look at the turkey trend you can see the difference between Thanksgiving (in the US) and Christmas (in the UK)<p><a href="http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&#38;geo=usa&#38;sa=N" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&#38;geo=usa&#38;sa=N</a> <a href="http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&#38;geo=gbr&#38;sa=N" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&#38;geo=gbr&#38;sa=N</a><p>But notice that Turkey is popular in the summer in the UK too. Could that be sun seeking holiday makers?<p>Another fun one is the Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca)<p><a href="http://google.com/trends?q=hajj&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=hajj&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;d...</a><p>If you look carefully you can see the date slowly changing year on year because the Hajj is determined by a lunar calendar.