Google Trends is a recent addition to the growing family of Google tools and services...

This particular service though is probably more "general interest" than a "hard core" tool.

To use the service first navigate to:

http://www.google.com/trends

...then enter a search term and the service will serve up news on it, along with a graph of its popularity over time and a list of where it is most popular in the world.

In the image below I typed in TWO search terms, each separated by a comma.

for example: amd, intel

This has the interesting effect of comparing the two search terms. So in this particular case I can research the recent search history of both AMD and Intel and see a comparison along with any news current stories...

Whilst this is NOT a statistically relevant piece of research it DOES give me a very good feel and insight for this broad search pattern.

YOU might find a use for it yourself?

Legend:

1 � Search Box
2 - Volume of searches displayed as a time line graph
3 - News references displayed in a time line graph
4 � "Flags" to news stories that appeared in the search time line
5 - News Stories

Not Shown - Below this information is another table showing the most popular search locations and languages.

Why not give it a go yourself...or even send this page URL to a friend so they can find out more about this service?

URL: www.updatexp.com/google-trends.html

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