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Google Trends - Online Trend Setting

Google just released a few new offerings reasserting itself as a search company, including Google trends, a service that allows anyone to view search volume for a given term.

I tried it out this morning and found some interesting uses:

Search for Stephen Colbert:

Look at how his results peaked after the CSPAN video. Also interesting to note the most results are coming from my very own liberal center Seattle.

Search for all the big internet players:

While people are putting down MySpace as a trend, it continues gaining growth on the big 4 (in terms of search results). Google just admitted that MySpace makes up 10% of all it's search results. That's huge. Notice LV is the #1 city, for MySpace searches, big surprise there ;)

Google poking into Real Estate Search ?

Is Google trying to own a share of Real estate Search ? Type in Homes for sale in google and you get dropdown menu allowing you to edit your criteria.

With the recent flood of online real estate search engines, it's no wonder that the kings of search want a piece of the action. The only problem is that they've chosen to do it by tying the search into their so far unsuccesful craigslist competitor, Google Base.

It is very important when the king of search takes up a vertical such as real estate. Achieving critical mass for their product should be their main goal in gaining a considerable market share of the real estate industry.