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December 14, 2009Google Trends: Hot Topics And Hot Searches
December 12, 2009
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Google Trends: Cyber Monday 2009
November 28, 2009In years past Cyber Monday received a lot of coverage from mainstream media which culminated with the day itself – the first Monday after Thanksgiving.
CyberMonday
However this year I don’t recall seeing or hearing much news about Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday 2009
It will be interesting to see after Cyber Monday has came and went this year whether or not the term and its significance will mirror the interest or lack thereof found in the Google Trends data above.
Swine Flu, Mexico, Google Flu Trends and the CDC
April 29, 2009Google.org has created experimental estimates of flu activity in Mexico using aggregated search data.
Google Flu Trends
Unlike its Google Flu Trends for the U.S., this Flu data for Mexico has not been validated against confirmed cases of flu.
For more information about confirmed cases and the current status of the Swine Flu outbreak visit the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
US Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection
Top Twitter HotSpots in Google Trends
February 20, 2009TechCrunch has produced two lists – one of the Top 21 most used Twitter clients according to Twitstat and the other a list of the Top 20 most visited Twitter web application sites according to Compete.
Either of the TechCrunch lists can provide would-be and existing Twitter users with plenty of tools for launching or improving their Twitter experience.
Looking at Twitter usage through Google Trends and Insights for Search shows increasingly higher search interest in Twitter from 2004 through the Present (Twitter was founded March 1, 2006) as well the geographic regions Twitter searches have originated from most often.
Twitter Web Search Volume
The Top 10 Countries with interest in Twitter (2004-Present):
Regional Interest for Twitter
Interestingly, searches for Twitter over the last 12 months show slightly increased interest from Canada, Australia and New Zealand with less search activity coming from Norway.
Regional Twitter Interest Last 12 Months
Sorting search interest over the last 90 days shows yet another level of interest in Twitter by country.
The United Kingdom supplants the United States as the top most interested region in Twitter while Portugal makes its first appearance on the list.
Twitter Regional Interest Last 90 Days
Drilling further down into Google Insights for search within each country produces maps showing interest levels by state and city.
In the United States, Oregon has had the highest level of state interest in Twitter followed by Vermont, Washington, District of Columbia, California, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Kansas and Iowa.
United States Twitter Regional Interest Last 90 Days
The U.S. cities with the highest level of search interest in Twitter over the last 90 days are San Francisco, Austin, Portland, New York, Pleasanton, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Washington and Chicago.
United States Twitter Regional City Interest Last 90 Days
Use Google Trends Insights for Search to further explore where Twitter is most searched for in the United Kingdom or in your particular corner of the world.
United Kingdom Twitter Regional Interest Last 90 Days
Superbowl 2009 Start Time and All Your Other Superbowl XLIII Questions Answered
February 1, 2009Google has become the web’s defacto version of TV Guide at least when it comes to finding out when Superbowl 43 starts.
The answer for those of you in the United States searching for “What time is the Superbowl 2009” comes courtesy of the NFL.com blog:
Superbowl 2009 Start Time
Kick off time will obviously come after the 6:00 PM EST Superbowl start time.
For those searching from outside the US looking for their respective countries start time the NFL has provided the following Superbowl XLIII international broadcast coverage details:
» The world feed – with NFL Network’s Bob Papa and Sterling Sharpe as announcers — will be heard in 141 countries.
» Fifteen countries are covering the game on site at Raymond James Stadium: Canada (CTV), China (Shanghai Media Group), Belgium (Telenet), Brazil (ESPN International), Denmark (Viasat), France (France 2), Germany (ARD), Hungary (Sport 1), Italy (RAI), Japan (NHK, Nippon Television), Latin America (FOX), Mexico (Televisa, TV Azteca), Russia (NTV Plus), Spain (Canal Plus, Cadena Ser), and the United Kingdom (BSkyB, BBC TV).
» The English world feed will be translated into 33 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese Cantonese, Chinese Mandarin, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Thai, Turkish.
» The newly launched channel American Sports Network in Asia will provide the world feed to fans in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
» In China, the game will be available live on CCTV and SMG in Chinese Mandarin.
» In Japan, fans will have three options to watch the game — on NTV, NHK and Gaora.
» Super Bowl will air live In Mexico on Televisa, TV Azteca and ESPN. Both the Cardinals and Steelers are big favorites in Mexico.
» Canadian fans can watch the NBC broadcast on CTV in English or in French on RDS through the world feed.
» In the UK, Sky will provide live coverage with analyst and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, and BBC ONE will broadcast live from Tampa Bay with analyst Rod Woodson.
» ESPN has the exclusive pay television rights to Super Bowl XLIII in which they will provide distribution to 119 countries.
A Google Trends search shows just how popular Superbowl related terms are on the web today.
34 of the top 100 searches on Google include Superbowl in the search while nearly as many searches include Superbowl related subjects like Superbowl Recipes and Superbowl Snacks.
Searching Google Trends and clicking through to its search results is an easy way for searchers to find the answers to all of their Superbowl related search questions.
Superbowl Google Trends
As you can see both above and below the most searched terms on Google right now are dominated by Superbowl related terms and subjects:
Superbowl 43 related search terms:
what time is the super bowl 2009
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guacamole recipes
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chili recipe
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superbowl bets
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super bowl prop bets
superbowl commercials
superbowl party games
velveeta cheese dip
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hot wings
superbowl predictions
chicken wing dip recipe
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super bowl tv schedule
taco dip
guacamole dip
football squares
velveeta recipes
superbowl dips
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potato skins
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superbowl 09
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superbowl props
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superbowl desserts
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superbowl squares template
Another source for real time answers to your SuperBowl 43 related questions is Twitter Search.
As you can see at the moment the top Twitter searches are also Superbowl related.
Twitter Superbowl Search
Neither Google Trends or Twitter Search require accounts to search for information.
For those of you familiar with Twitter and who have Twitter accounts, there are several Superbowl related Twitter accounts covering different aspects of the Superbowl.
Superbowl XLIII itself has a Twitter account: @SuperBowl
Superbowl commercials are being covered by both SuperAds and SpotBowl (@SuperAds & @SpotBowl)
Whereas many Superbowl advertisers now appear savvy to running Google Adwords ads to extend their SuperBowl message, eTrade looks like it may be the only Superbowl advertiser attempting to extend its brand message by engaging the Twitter community through its brand spokesperson – the eTradeBaby – who has his own Twitter account:
eTradeBaby Twitter Account
eTrade has already generated 2 million views of its eTradeBaby Outtakes video on YouTube.
When were the other Superbowl advertisers planning on setting up their Twitter accounts to extend their brands’ reach?
Which other Superbowl advertisers have Twitter accounts?
What are their account names?
I guess these particular Superbowl related question won’t get answered until next year’s Superbowl 44.
New Year’s Resolutions
December 28, 2008Its quickly becoming that time of year again – the time when people begin to reflect on their past year’s accomplishments while looking forward to and setting goals they want to achieve in the new year.
Google Trends Insight for Search illustrates just how predictable and recurring searches for “New Year’s Resolutions” are year after year.
New Year's Resolutions
Not surprisingly, searchers don’t appear to have any interest in New Year’s Resolutions at any other time of the year other than around the end and beginning of each year.
Based on the Google’s Search Volume Index, searchers from the state of Utah appear to have the highest degree of interest in New Year’s Resolutions followed by searchers from Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina, Minnesota and Missouri.
State Search Interest New Year's Resolutions
Conversely, relatively few if any searchers from Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine have expressed any interest in, ie. searched for the term – “New Year’s Resolutions”.
What if any conclusions can be drawn from regional search interest or a lack thereof in any one particular word or phrase like “New Years Resolutions”?
Flu Season and Google Search Trends Flu Tracker
November 12, 2008Google.org has launched Google Flu Trends to provide up-to-date estimates of flu activity in the United States based on aggregated search queries.
Search queries related to flu can be viewed at the United States level or on a state by state basis.
Based on search data from years past, flu season in the United States begins in mid November and ends by early April depending on where you are located.
Search Google Flu Trends to see your particular state’s historical and present flu search activity.
Google Flu Trends Tracker
Overall, California appears to have less search activity than other states during flu season.
Low California Flu
While most other states appear to share the same flu season with the exception of Maine and Texas.
Moderate Maine Flu
Maine’s flu search interest appears to indicate Maine has a longer flu season than other states.
Minimal Texas Flu
While flu season in Texas appears to start later and end more quickly than in other states.
Check back with Google Flu Trends after you have had Thanksgiving Dinner to begin monitoring when flu search activity increases and thus when flu season has begun in your state.
Google Zeitgeist: Is Reverse Polling As Good At Predicting The Next President of the United States As Traditional Pollsters?
October 23, 2008If you haven’t visited Google’s Zeitgeist recently, it now invites visitors to “take a look inside the world of search” via one of Google’s four search tools: Google Trends, Trends for Websites, Insights for Search and Hot Trends.
According to Google, “Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times”.
Google’s search tools reveal “the spirit of the times” through the aggregation of millions of search queries Google receives every day.
Isn’t the data Google culls from millions of search queries and their resulting Zeitgeist’s “spirit of the times” in effect – Reverse Polling?
Granted; searches for presidential candidates aren’t necessarily purchase proxies like those inherent in transactional related searches – or are they?
Through our votes aren’t we buying one candidate instead of another and then paying for both the newly elected and their predecessors’ policies via local, state and federal tax code?
Maybe one day we can shop for and elect officials online, but until then – we will have to settle for searching a candidates’ “product” features and benefits via all the various media available online including news, blogs and candidate websites.
Thus and barring concerns about the US Economy, few other topics symbolize the spirit of the times more here in the US than the upcoming United States Presidential election.
In keeping with the spirit of the times, below are two Google graphs illustrating how often each presidential candidate’s name has been searched compared to the other candidate with the difference calculated in ratios.
Barack Obama Searches
According to this Google graph, John McCain receives .62 searches for every Barack Obama search.
John McCain Searches
The same search data explained another way shows Barack Obama receives 1.62 searches for every search John McCain receives in Google.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published their most recent presidential poll which has a graph that somewhat resembles Google search data for both candidates.
Wall Street Journal Poll
Further Google tool research for both candidates websites even more closely mirrors the recent Wall Street Journal presidential poll results.
BarackObama.com JohnMcCain.com
Google search data indicates BarackObama.com has received 1 search for every .32 JohnMcCain.com searches.
And again – the search data appears to closely mirror the Wall Street Journal presidential poll findings.
BarackObama.com Searches
The same search data presented for McCain searches shows JohnMcCain.com receives one search for every 3.2 BarackObama.com searches.
JohnMcCain.com Searches
Have not Voters’ presidential candidate preferences already manifested in Google search data?
If so, what search factors potentially skew the predictive qualities of Google data?
In my next “Google Presidential Poll” post, I will take a crack at answering the above questions while also delving more deeply into where and how voters’ presidential candidate preferences have already materialized in Google search data as well as provide additional reasons why I think Google data has reached parity with traditional pollster data – at least on the national level.
Google Hot Trends Gadget Error
August 28, 2008Google Hot Trends offers a “Top 10 Trends” gadget that I display in my iGoogle account.
Google Hot Trends Gadget
The Hot Trends gadget appears to be on the blink and has been for the last several hours.
Google Labs can you get this fixed?
Googe Trends Gadget Error
