An Interesting Look at US Sports
It’s interesting that searches for Football peak during the beginning of the season and are way down by the time the Super Bowl rolls around. The same happens for Baseball.
Take the Google Trends Pepsi Challenge
It seems Coke has a slight edge since the beginning of 2007: However, a more exhaustive comparison, shows just how far ahead Coke is: I’ve separated Coca-Cola from Coke to get a better idea of which term gets used more, but feel free to add them up.
In Google Trends, Rock beats Paper
Today’s Trend chart shows that in the Googleverse, Rock beats Paper beats Scissors. Try that as an excuse next time your 5-yr old nephew beats you at RPS.
Web 3.0 still not here, Web 2.0 remains king
According to this Google Trends chart, the expected arrival of Web3.0 is still far in the distance. It’s still a Web2.0 world. But sit tight… it’ll be here soon enough.
Seasonal searches are seasonal – Doh!
Well, according to this latest Google Trends report, it seems people make more searches for each season during that particular season. It seems kind of obvious, in retrospect… but it’s interesting to note that searches for “summer” begin much earlier than for any other season.
Hamburger wolfs down Hot-dog
It’s a hamburger world, it seems. Except for every Fourth of July, when Nathan’s Hot-dog Eating Contest rolls around. Check out the Google Trends chart:
HD-DVD stuns Blueray
According to this Google Trends chart, HD-DVD is leaving Blueray in the dust. And we all know what dust will do to the laser in your player.
Lookout MySpace, here comes Facebook
This is the first article of a series I’ll call GoogleTrending, where I use Google Trends to compare search terms and come to usually preposterous conclusions based on the trend charts. I hope you enjoy it. Share your favorite trend comparisons -or suggest ideas for new posts- using the comments form below. MySpace seems to…