With Google’s massive share of the search engine market you think that they would have brought out this feature a lot faster than they did. This new feature to the Goliath of a search engine lets people know what America is currently searching for. I thought that Google would have came out with this feature a long time ago. Yahoo had their top ten searches and they also had a section that showed what other users where searching when you searched for a specific topic.
This new feature is called Google trends. There new hot trends feature also will graph the trend for that specific search over time.
With Google Trends being a destination site though, it doesn’t get much attention outside of those of us who track web trends. That’s changing though, because in a blog post today, Google () announced that it has integrated Google Trends in actual Google Search () results.
The integration is rather simple. Now when you search a hot trend, you will find the trend and its graph at the bottom of the search engine results page (SERP). For example, if you search for the “Tim Tebow concussion video” (the QB for the Florida Gators who was hurt in his game this past Saturday), you will find its hotness, how it ranks in the top 100 most popular searches, and the search volume graph:
For Google to track all this data is amazing. They took an old feature from their arch-enemy Yahoo and a graphing feature and they also have a meter by the specific page that lists from the search. I have to commend Google because they have been adding many features over the last few months. Like I have posted in an early article for Google to compete with the Yahoo Portal they need to add features. Most of the recent features have not been geared towards the typical Google user, but Google will add these features in due time.
John Botch
Laserburnmedia.com
