What is it?
“Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally.[1] Below the main graph, popularity is broken down by region, city and language. It is possible to refine the main graph by region and time period.”
Pick a Date!
You can also hit up Google Hot Trends, which will display a list of fourty trends for the current date. If you look up to the top left of the screen, you can change to date. It’s kinda like a history book isn’t it? You can check on any date (not too far back now) and see what happened! By the way, it only goes back to May 2007, so not too much you can actually look up! What a fail Google! D:
Are there other sites like this?
Of course there are silly! You can use the Alexa ranks too (my personal favorite)! You can find those trends at two different spots on the Alexa site. There is the “What’s Hot” section and the “Top Pages” section. Hopefully one day I’ll be up there! Though that will probably never happen! Poor me! Enjoy…
