Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Three new products - Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, and Google Notebook - advance the state of the art in search by helping users worldwide find and share more relevant information. The products all incorporate new capabilities that leverage user communities, enabling users to either share more information with others or benefit from other users' expertise to improve the accuracy of search results.
However, the most interesting of the bunch to our crew, is : Google Trends: [google.com...]
The company also introduced Google Trends, a new tool that enables users to examine billions of searches conducted on Google to gain insight into broad search patterns over time.
Your terms - folding widgets, bent widgets - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.
Lots of products......
Here are some my fun trials:
terror, terrorist
bush smart, bush stupid
sex, music
happiness, sadness
apple, mac, microsoft, linux
html, php, asp, css
wal mart, wal-mart, walmart, ikea
Wow, so cool!
Google has launched Google Co-op, a service that lets users subscribe to the “favorites” or “bookmarks” of experts, thus improving the relevance of search results.[pandia.com...]
One common example here is subscribing to the bookmarks of medical expertsto get more relveant health searches -- likely the source for the "Google Health" rumor of last week.
There are sites that get quite a bit of search volume, but the trend data doesn't reflect those numbers.
It seems Google has a pretty high threshold of total traffic before they consider it significant enough to show trend data.
Estimating the long tail trends, and how Geo-modified terms are changing is something that is still very lacking from the major engines.
However, the notebook looks to have some interesting applications. One of the biggest issues for people (such as me) is using multiple computers and having information synced properly.
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Yeah...exactly like GM..lots of BAD products.
It seems Google has a pretty high threshold of total traffic before they consider it significant enough to show trend data.
True, this tool seems to be mostly for the high volume two and three word searches, at least at this point. I notice that adding a very high traffic term into the mix can compress the bottom end of the graph, which is something that I've seen happen with the keyword suggestion tool too. And in some combinations, it sometimes drops terms out entirely, which I've seen the keyword do as well.
Nevertheless, I've already found Google Trends to be extremely useful in demonstrating where marketing emphasis needs to go on a multi product-line site (with high volume searches), something it would have taken a lot more work to do a couple of days ago.
normalized linear
Is there a source for that, or is this anecdotal?
Thanks.
Now they even know what you are thinking about.
Google Co-op is about sharing expertise. You can contribute your expertise and benefit when others do the same. Help other users find information more easily by creating "subscribed links" for your services and labeling webpages around the topics you know best.This is a work in progress, but even in its early stages, Google Co-op has the potential to let you contribute your expertise to the overall goal of making information more discoverable for everyone.
Apologies mods, if that quote is too big.
Appears very interesting but I don't really understand what they're trying to do tbh. Seems far too open to abuse to me.
Almost every keyword I checked was in DECLINE from 2004, except dating
