Google Trends Comes With Numbers

[poster_boy]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.

The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search in Google's vast database of search terms, relative to others.

Now Google is giving users the ability to search across terms in its database, instantly chart how they compare to other search terms, then export the underlying numerical data into a common spreadsheet format to compare with other data.

Reuters [reuters.com]

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[engine]

The latest version of Google Trends is now live! If you've used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages. With our latest update, you can now see numbers on the graph download to a spreadsheet. (Note: Both these functions are available after you've signed in to your Google Account.)

Google Trends [googleblog.blogspot.com]

[fischermx]

They are just a scale! :(

[Gomvents]

these numbers are quite useless... exact # of searches would've been nice...

[fischermx]

Exactly!
I have no idea why this was put on the front page.
I skipped a heartbeat when I saw the title :(
It is deceptive......

[Oliver Henniges]

> these numbers are quite useless... exact # of searches would've been nice...

all that's necessary is ONE single term as a standard-meter.
this CAN be(come) a very useful tool even without exact figures.

What is the maximum number of terms that might be requested and/or is there any API available for automated requests?

What exactly is the difference between the two alternative downloads with relativeas opposed to fixed scaling?

For many of my keywords googletrends says "not enough search volume", although they perform with interesting revenue. What would you say where is the threshold (in absolute figures) where the database begins to work?

[poster_boy]

I skipped a heartbeat when I saw the title :(
It is deceptive......

Sorry for the trauma, fishermx... but that was a moderator's title - not mine. :)

[tedster]

There is some solid news here - the ability to export a CSV file with a lot of data, even if it is scaled. And there's more information about the way the two kinds of scaling (relative and fixed) work here:

[google.com...]

The "export as a CSV file" function is available if you are signed in to your Google account.

[elguiri]

Initially I see this as very useful for comparing different terms within a niche. If I already have real data for one term, I can have a good guess at the searches for the compared term.

[zulu_dude]

I presume that the scale given above the graphs is a directly linear, averaged scale? If so, then any term with known search level can be used to get search levels for any other term.

That seems too simplistic to be true!

[SEOMike]

I find their "hotness" meter interesting. Also interesting is that for today half of the top ten hottest stories are about the tornadoes that plowed thorough the Midwest including my home state of Kansas. There's also a mention of those poor Boy Scouts that were killed.

Also, I was comparing two popular search terms for my industry and found that though one term had a slightly higher trend for search, the other term blew it away in the spikes by two or three times. Very interesting.