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Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
15 years ago3,893 views

Google Insights for Search (See what the world is search for.)

<< Google is giving everyone a chance to peek deeper into its database of search requests and discover the things that preoccupy individuals and, in aggregate, entire cities, states or nations, at any one time.

On Wednesday, the company is introducing a free service called Insights for Search. The tool is intended for marketers, but it allows anyone to track the popularity of various words and phrases that people type into Google’s search box. >>

Service Link:
http://google.com/insights/search/

Quote above from NY Times post: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/business/media/06adco.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

More coverage:
Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.com/080806-000001.php

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Now it's online! :)
[put at-character here]Colin : Tony, Hebbet and me have already written about that this week ;)

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Oh sorry, Tonight was the first time I've heard about it.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Official post: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-google-insights-for-search.html

jf [PersonRank 5]

15 years ago #

very very interesting.

love the way you can drill down through different search categories....

DPic [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Umm....Google Trends? Shouldn't this just be a re-branded google trends v.2?

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]DPic
Yeah that's what I was thinking. The to services are so similar, Insights could just have been used as the next Trends. All they've done is added more features and gave it a longer address!

Now they have two almost identical products running side by side! (Little bit hypocritical as I like Page Creator and Google Video :P)

Above 7 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

What's the Chicago Chicago approach? Never heard of anything like that.

DPic [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This reminds me of Google Transit search. Why isn't just part of Google Maps? I hope they're working on that.

In fact, they could combine the Mars and Moon maps with Google Maps.

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