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20 Mar 2008

Google Trends

Google Trends

How often has x been googled over the years? Good for at least a half hour of fun! As a CS major, part of the math department, it is amazingly entertaining to look at trends of things, especially internet memes. Want to know when lolcats started? Rickrolling? It’s right there.

You can see when large historical events happened, who is more popular in the results (Obama). Compare HD-DVD to Blu-ray searches, see how things get more (emo) and less (My Chemical Romance) popular over the years. Porn searches vs. free porn? The possibilities are endless.

It’s like googlefight but over time as well. Extra dimension means it’s infinitely better. Go spend a good half hour at least amusing yourself.

You can thank Mark Miltenburg for this blog, he made me write it.

Tags: CS, google, nerd, trends

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 1:49 am by Michael Hartog and is filed under random. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Google Trends”

  1. bubbleonfire says:
    March 20, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Same here! I love the site.

    Reply
  2. Solomon baldwin says:
    July 11, 2010 at 1:01 am

    Hi, sometimes i see copied on google trends and the blog still rank well what do you think about it?

    Reply

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