Interesting how the word [nano] was never really searched for until the iPod Nano was released: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ipod%2C+nano

"Tsunami"

Web 2.0:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Web+2.0%22

Just thought of another...

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Internet+Explorer%2C+Firefox%2C+Netscape%2C+Opera

Internet Explorer & Netscape: downwards trend
Opera: about the same
Firefox: upwards trend

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Larry+Page%2C+Sergey+Brin&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Philipp, check out http://sandeep.weblogs.us/archives/new-err-non-portal-tools-from-google.html – we now have Google Notebook!

I thought it interesting to run a trend comparison of the top suggestions for single letters, as given by Google Suggest, and by the new livesearch from Alltheweb.

See

http://zmarties.blogspot.com/2006/05/livesearch-from-alltheweb.html

for the results.

another interesting one... microsoft, yahoo, and google... notice how google jumped like crazy, but microsoft stayes pretty consistently the same...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft%2C+yahoo%2C+google&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Who uses Google to search for Google? :P

apparently there's more people that search for google, than people that search for microsoft... :P

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ken+jennings

for those who don't know, he pwned everyone at jeapordy for a long time. the news flags are very helpful in these; w/o them it wouldn't be half as cool as it is. They need an integral graph above and a derivative graph below each graph.

looks like lots of people in pakistan were searching for this:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=denmark+cartoons&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

britney is on a downward trend

http://www.google.com/trends?q=denmark+cartoons&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

note how "ibiza" searches peak during the summer months
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ibiza&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

and how "snowboarding" peaks during the winter:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=snowboarding&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

The Tsunami result LOOKS like a Tsunami....
http://www.google.com/trends?q=tsunami&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

http://google.com/trends?q=gmail%2C+hotmail&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
http://google.com/trends?q=opendocument%2C+openxml&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
http://google.com/trends?q=Ubuntu%2C+Redhat%2C+Windows+Vista%2C+Osx%2C+Solaris&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=brad+pitt%2C+angelina+jolie%2C+Jennifer+Aniston&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

;)

MicroSoft, Office
http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft%2C+office&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Curves seems to be olmost identical..

Try the famous googlebomb, [miserable failure]. What cities, regions and languages are most popular for this term?

Digg, Fark, Slashdot:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg%2C+fark%2C+slashdot&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=nintendo%2C+wii&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Nintendo, Wii

Look where wii starts!

I love this one:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=full+moon&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Can anyone else come up with some strongly periodic searches? (apart from the obvious like christmas, etc).

Can't believe nobody has posted a link showing the trend of Blogoscoped – nice spike, then trending down ... but a good example of where I don't think this reflects reality because my guess is Philipp's readership/traffic have been on a strong upward trend – maybe Philipp can post some actual web traffic data/trends as that would be of general interest – in fact, a seperate post about that would be cool for everyone to see – hint, hint! ;-)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogoscoped&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

As yearly cyclic:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bicycle
http://www.google.com/trends?q=skis

Compared:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=skis%2C+bicycle

Then annual incidents:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=tax+return
http://www.google.com/trends?q=canada+day

And, strangely, look at year boudaries for:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=house+for+rent

Ronaldinho vs. Beckham:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ronaldinho%2C+beckham&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

I like the browser comparison graph. Very true.

Alek, as for a Blogoscoped searches downward trend, maybe people start to memorize the relatively long URL and then slowly stopped searching for "blogoscoped"? :)
As you mentioned, the real traffic graph is rising not declining. Since I've quit my job in September last year I think blogging full-time made a change. Here's the unique visitors graph since January 2005:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/traffic-graph-may-2006.png

I don't know if this one also interesting or not

http://www.google.com/trends?q=tammy+nyp&ctab=2&date=all&geo=all

Philipp, that chart is really interesting, particularly in how it spikes every few months (though it's not enough information to call those spikes a trend). I imagine that the spikes strongly correlate with big Google releases.

this seems like a tool aimed at Adwords users

Very interesting and intriguing tool. The Cities/Regions/Languages top results seem very unrealisitic to me though.
Check for Angelina Jolie and then you will notice that she is most popular in Romania and the biggest cities of Turkey, but not Romanian cities. Romania is a not a very populated country (20 mllion) and I wonder whether they love her there that much or whether the numbers are skewed.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=angelina+jolie

We were playing around with this for a while at work. Here's some fun ones we found.

Noisewords work – these fly to the top of any other keyword I could find:
http://google.com/trends?q=the%2C+of%2C+to%2C+and%2C+in&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Air is one of the few things more important than porn:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+cars%2C+microsoft%2C+air%2C+love&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Google trends can help you make decisions:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+marriage&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

I found a few things about the regional results. They are sorted based on the first term in the trends query. Like vanity searches, it makes sense that people from a certain region would search about that region, so I tried this:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=tampa%2C+jacksonville%2C+gainesville%2C+tallahassee%2C+sarasota&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Note that each city tends to search for itself much more than other cities. When you add Orlando, a popular tourist destination, the results get less regional (at least on the regions tab):

http://www.google.com/trends?q=orlando%2C+jacksonville%2C+gainesville%2C+tallahassee%2C+sarasota&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

This is a fun tool, though. I have wasted a lot of time playing around with it.

this is also useful tool for airlines

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ryanair%2C+easyjet%2C+lufthansa&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

and for mobile phone companies
http://www.google.com/trends?q=nokia%2C+ericcson%2C+motorola&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

http://www.google.com/trends?q=sopranos%2C+the+shield%2C+american+idol&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

this tool would be 100X more useful if there were figures.

and it could be very useful for bands.

depeche mode – most popular in budapest
http://www.google.com/trends?q=depeche+mode&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

arctic monkeys – big fan base in sheffield (uk)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=arctic+monkeys&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

and since we're talking about rock'n'roll:

cocaine
http://www.google.com/trends?q=cocaine&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
note the interesting spike because of Kate Moss.

"bbc news" and "sky news" – note the big spike on July 7th 2005

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bbc+news%2C+sky+news&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

So many people have viewed this very page that the majority of these searches are now being blocked by Google as a Spyware request!

I think the "spyware" error message is simply the generic error message that gets put up when the system is overloaded – yet another case of a Google service that becomes so popular on its first day that the system cannot cope.

Google Trends = Yahoo! Buzz Index (for pay version)

Yahoo! built the Yahoo! Buzz Index over 4 years ago with more features (demographics) than Google Trends. There is two versions of the Yahoo! Buzz Index (free version) and the for Pay Version (https://client.buzz.yahoo.com/internal) which allow you to slice and dice data to your heart's content.

I think it's interesting how an anticipated event has a slow rise then a spike (example: http://google.com/trends?q=christmas) whereas an unexpected event does the reverse (example: http://google.com/trends?q=katrina)

Its amazing how a genius like da vinci was barely searched until recent years because of the book.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=da+vinci

Google vs Yahoo, MSN, and Ask; although it makes sense less people will search for Google from Google itself! :)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Speaks for itself! :)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=verizon%2C+cingular&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Age old questions:

Dogs or Cats :
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Dog%2C+Cat&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Men vs. Women
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Men%2C+Women&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Good vs. Evil
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Evil%2C+Good&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Bud Light, Miller Light
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Bud+Light%2C+Miller+Light&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

http://google.com/trends?q=linksys%2C+cisco

And Jay, it's not necessarily that DaVinci wasn't searched for often; the search volume is on a sliding scale so it only shows *relative* search volume

muah ha ha ha: google base vs ebay:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+base%2C+ebay&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

fish, chicken, beef, pork

http://www.google.com/trends?q=pork%2C+chicken%2C+beef%2C+fish&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

beer, lager, vodka, whiskey, wine
http://www.google.com/trends?q=beer%2C+lager%2C+whiskey%2C+vodka%2C+wine&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Found this via Digg – summer vs winter. It's a cool graph:
http://google.com/trends?q=summer%2C+winter%2C&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Web scripting languages:

http://google.com/trends?q=cold+fusion%2C+php%2C++ajax%2C+asp&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Interesting. Poor old Cold Fusion has been pretty much flatlining the past three years, and ASP is in decline. Queries on PHP are slowing, but still strong.

'AJAX' is on the rise, though judging by the accompanying news stories, this may be skewed by what appears to be an European football team named Ajax :)

I guess post of us like it HOT! :)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=hot%2C+cold

http://www.google.com/trends?q=j2ee%2C+ejb&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Look at all the searches from india for coding languages!

health and porn during any month other than december shows a weekly cycle. Porn searches go up saturday and sunday night at the same time that health searches go down.

There is also a lull in porn consumption over Christmas

http://www.google.com/trends?q=health%2C+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2005-11

"linux" is concentrated in Europe.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux

"solaris" is mostly Japan, India and Singapore
http://www.google.com/trends?q=solaris&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"ubuntu" is mostly all Europe
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"sql server" – lots of India
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sql+server&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"ms office" – top 4 are India
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ms+office&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"oracle" – again , loads of India
ttp://www.google.com/trends?q=oracle&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"mysql" – no.1 is india, but the rest are mostly Europe
http://www.google.com/trends?q=mysql&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"kde" – mostly all europe
http://www.google.com/trends?q=kde&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"debian" – again, mostly Europe
http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

"java" – top 5 are India
http://www.google.com/trends?q=java&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

lesson here? if you dont want your tech job outsourced, start learning/using open source software.

Hey everyone very cool collection of Google Trends. I have been building a massive list of Google Trends to help spur debate and further development of the Google Trends product. Please check it out:

http://www.joelmackey.com/googletrends.html

I published an entry for possibly most common word understood around the world. sex.

Google trend shows people where sex is highest compared other word in their search belong from Sexually starved traditional or conservative societies. Pakistan is at the top in chart and word "sex" is understood in languages other than English speaking countries.

http://www.GoogleTrends.in

Boxers vs. briefs

http://www.google.com/trends?q=boxers+underwear%2C+briefs+underwear&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

The "underwear" qualifier is necessary to exclude dogs, sportmen and news.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogoscoped%2C+google+blogoscoped&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all