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Google's Trends Lab: The World Wants Cupcakes

Google.com is more than just a search engine, a way to find the best tetrazini recipe online. It can be a canvas for human trend and a way to show the yearnings of the world's soul. Okay, so maybe I won't do into all that in this blog but I will show some things that are very revealing about the lives of Googlers.

First, let's start out with something fun. I thought of some current events and searched them on Google to see which one got the most results.

1. 'Barack Obama' 109,000,000 results.

2. 'Jon and Kate Plus 8' 97,200,000 results.

3. 'Adam Lambert' 17,500,000 results.

4. 'The Hangover' 7,430,000 results.

5. 'Octomom' 2,060,000 results.

Cool, no?
Here's the really cool part, let's take a look at Google Trend Labs, something extremely interesting I just discovered today. It's a search engine within Google where you type in a trend (such as twitter, digg.com, american idol) and it gives you a graph showing you who popularly searched it has been over five years, one year or 30 days.

1. First I typed in 'twitter', here's the traffic graph for the word twitter over the last 12 months:

As you can see, the search traffic for Twitter has increased signigicantly over the past year.


2. Next I typed in 'Barack Obama' and set the interval to 'All years':

Just look at those peaks and valleys from 2008-2009.

3. Next....how about 'cupcakes'?:

4. 'iced tea':
This one was surprisingly constantly up and down. Why is that?


5. And last, but of course not least, 'google'. Have you ever Googled Google?

Surprise surprise, Google is getting popular.

So what does all this trend labbing say about America? I think it says that people are becoming more and more intrapersonal with thier lives (twitter), they are indulging themselves more personally instead of more people at a time (cupcakes) also that cupcakes are becoming chic, who knew? It finally shows that Google could quite possibly take over the world.

I'm sure that there is much more to be learned from this, but maybe for someone more suited for that job. However for the person just wanting to take a gander at these features, it is oddly fascinating.

-Jack

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