Comments on: Google Launches Hot Trends

By: Carlos Lorenzo

Carlos Lorenzo — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:20:41 +0000

I am going to suggest a site which I think is relevant to the topic. It is a search engine that turns the top 100 list of Google Hot Trends into a tag cloud and refines the results for each term. This is the address http://google-hot-trends-swicki.eurekster.com/

By: ganes

ganes — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:32:23 +0000

Sounds interesting though i still not sure how really it work lol. thanks for the info darren

By: alec

alec — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:28:25 +0000

Can google launch something entitled ‘make my Google analytics work for the past 24 hours? Please?’ Because man, I’m starving for stats overhere.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:05:50 +0000

Chuck, I heard that some of the results are due to things like radio competitions or the subject being mentioned on the local news/news article. So I’d expect that’s the reason why so many people are searching for odd subjects.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:42:43 +0000

I’m not buying it. There’s no way in the world that hundreds of thousands of people are searching for “Cordelia’s father” today. This is more like the old “what people are searching for right now” thing…just not as frequently updated. I see little use for this unless one has time to burn…which i don’t.

By: Paulo Villela

Paulo Villela — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:17:43 +0000

Darren,
The Google is if becoming the owner of the information. She imagines if they go to want to publish that the Yahoo is being the searched term more…

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:50:52 +0000

Phil

Are they pulling your RSS Feed automatically?

If you are on Wordpress there are plugins that will insert copyright statements in your feed, or put questionable content in for particular subscribers.

See, for example, http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/antileech-splog-stopper-fighting-back-against-content-thieves/

Matt

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:02:49 +0000

Thanks, Darren, it’s good to know about such new and useful feature by Google.

Hmm… it seems like Hot Trends is not real time, but only updated several times a day (http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#2 #2 and #8)

It’s interesting that “Currently, Google Trends is only available in English and Chinese. Hot Trends is only available in English.” I guess Google is going after the Chinese market.

By: Seek Geo

Seek Geo — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:00:32 +0000

Good ol’ Google… thanks for the info!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:13 +0000

Rhys and Carlie,

The results are not necessarily the most popular, they are items that have volume spikes.

Most of the really common search terms are filtered out and I think I read somewhere that stuff like porn is also filtered out.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#2

By: Roberta

Roberta — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:48:11 +0000

Phil, that really sucks that this clown from Singapore can do this to you. I mean, the guy didn’t even change the post where to talk about RomanceTracker being no longer a nofollow blog….what a jerk :(

Darren, thanks for the great tip, now I have something new to follow :)

By: mharke

mharke — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:34:28 +0000

Nice find. I was surprised to see so many software-related searches for today’s Top 100, until I realized that World of Warcraft must’ve just had a patch day (at least 30 of the top 100 are interface mods for that game). Definitely good info for gamer bloggers, but I can see this tool being a great help for all of us.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:23:11 +0000

Darren – thanks for the tip on Google Hot Trends. Things like this make subscribing to your newsletter worth it!

Phil – Reposting your blog like this is blatent copyright infringement. If you can figure out who their web host provider is, you should be able to get that domain shut down by contacting them and filing a copyright infringement complaint – unless of course they’re in China or Nigeria!

I was going to leave a comment on the lovetips site that they were thieves, but guess what? clicking on comments took me to your site for commenting!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:40:13 +0000

Rhys, I read somewhere (but can’t find it now) that things like porn are filtered out.

Also, they are not necessarily showing the most popular searches. They are showing the things with popularity spikes:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#2

By: Phil Van Treuren

Phil Van Treuren — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:37:33 +0000

Hey everyone, I need your advice . . .

I’m working hard every day to build my blog, http://www.romancetracker.com . . . and am pleased to see that my Google search hits are slowly growing.

Unfortunately, I have discovered a site that takes every single post I write, every day, and reproduces them exactly, word for word! They have even stolen the categories I put the posts under! You can see this awful site at http://www.101lovetips.com . . . compare it to mine!

What should I do? The site that is stealing from me has no contact information on it at all. I hate to think that their thievery is affecting my Google ranking, and besides, I don’t want them re-publishing my original writing!

Any advice?

By: Cutie

Cutie — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:51 +0000

Hmmm,,, Google is a little too late, so many web like technorati has the similiar feature.. But that also great for other reference.. Sweet!!

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:25:52 +0000

I’ll be honest, I’m surprised not to see “Porn” up there.

By: NGeN

NGeN — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:08 +0000

Really interesting ..hehe
but it contains trends from america only i wud like to see the whole world’s trend though..tht wud be a little more interesting

By: Sham

Sham — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:11:44 +0000

Hi,
Very useful info. I guess for people, who write on latest trends this helps a lot.These are definitely worth keeping an eye on.

Thank you
Sham

By: Webstandard-Team

Webstandard-Team — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:52:42 +0000

Nice new feature of Google, but some of those “Hot Trends” are really strange ;o)