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&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0<p>Note Ramadan: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&ctab=0&geo=SA&geor=all&date=all&sort=0 (...and the correlation between Saudi news stories including "sex" and "woman")<p>Can't wait for the Trends API.
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&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+porn&ctab=0&ge...</a><p>Ramadan? <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&ctab=0&geo=SA&geor=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+woman&ctab=0&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&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=html%2C+php%2C+javascript%2C+...</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=eggs%2C+roses%2C+tree%2C+turkey&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&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&geo=usa&sa=N" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&geo=usa&sa=N</a>
<a href="http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&geo=gbr&sa=N" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=turkey&geo=gbr&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&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/trends?q=hajj&ctab=0&geo=all&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.