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What exactly is Google Trends?
Where Does Google Trends Data Originate from
How to Use Google Trends
Use Google Trends to Conduct Market Research
Try Google Trends for Newsjacking.
Use Google Trends to Conduct Keyword Research
Product Innovation via Google Trends
Use Google Trends to Cluster Topics
Use Google Trends to analyze news publications.
What exactly is Google Trends?
On the Google Trends site, the phrase "Explore what the world is Googling" welcomes you and appropriately describes what the tool performs. Google Trends visualizes Google's trending topics, search phrases, and news. It gives real-time statistics on current patterns from the last seven days, as well as historical trends dating back to 2004.
Where Does Google Trends Data Originate from
Google Trends provides anonymized real-time and non-real-time samples of Google search queries, which are then sorted into themes. Because we may identify patterns by geography, the data is adjusted so that locations with the highest search traffic do not always rank first. To analyze relative popularity, Google divides each data point by the total number of searches in the location and time range it covers. These statistics are then scaled on a scale of 0 to 100, based on the fraction of searches on all topics for that topic. One significant limitation of the statistics is that Google retains inquiries that may be the result of "irregular behavior." Google claims that this is done to maintain the quality of search data offered by other Google technologies. Simply put, if Google removed spammy behavior from Trends, spammers could use the tool to learn which phrases are flagged as spam and change them appropriately. The Realtime Search Trends report contains, in addition to search query data, the number of Google News items generated every hour.
How to Use Google Trends
Google Trends offers numerous methods to slice and split data. Google Trends is divided into four major sections:
- Explore
- Trending Search
- Year in Search
- Subscriptions