Google trends

Just noticed this on Google. There's now a place off the main screen called "Google Trends". Type a search term in there and it will return a search volume and news volume history and breakdown by world city and region. To the right will be appropriate news items pegged to the graph to show whether or not the item caused a spike in searches.

Try "NSA" or "UFO" or "Illuminati". Thought it was pretty cool, especially the results for Cities and Regions. Apparently a lot of UFO searches from Poland and, not surprisingly, "Illuminati" is a popular search in Germany.

Here's a link:
Google Trends

I got a 403 error when I tried it, but maybe someone else will have better luck?

Link works for me.

Blue=hurricane katrina
Red=gas prices


www.google.com...,+gas+prices

[edit on 11-5-2006 by sardion2000]