Tag: GOOGLETRENDS

The revolutions across the Middle East may have ushered in a new era of U.S. intelligence-gathering -- one that could even include Google. Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, an instructor at West Point, and Joshua Goldstein, from Princeton, recently used Google Trends to analyze the terms that Web users in Egypt searched at the height of the country's recent upheaval. "What we did was a comparison of ...

Last year, The Business Insider -- inspired by an obscenity case in Pensacola, Florida -- checked out the Google Trends data for each of the "seven dirty words." The defense attorney in the case had planned to use Google search data to show that Pensacola's morals were lax in comparison to the rest of the country. The research never saw the light of day, but that didn't stop The Business Insider ...

Those who use Google Trends were on the receiving end of a pretty ugly tasteless Web stunt on Tuesday: the second most popular item in the "Hot Trends" category was an image of an airplane flying into the twin towers. "Hot Trends" is meant to track the fastest rising searches at any given moment; the prevailing theory, among search experts, is that the stunt was accomplished using "bots" to ...