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[28/03/2010] The google trends
Bottomless within the Google search engine, not usually used by the average searcher, there is tool that has taken the internet domain/click-farmers to orgasmic heights of festivities. What is this fantabulous instrument of the googlified (can I copyright that term?) age group? It is, of course, the Google Trend Analysis.
Google tendency analysis presents a fascinating insight to the popular culture as it is right now. I don't signify "now" as in this week nor the age in which we live. I mean "now" as in the existential zeitgeist of this changing cultural second. Google shows for us a list of the top 100 search terms/subjects that we inquisitive apes are pounding into our keyboards on any given day. If a term is being searched sufficient a handy little graph will pop up and show accurately when that term began to spike in popularity. Any relevant news stories will be detailed below the term. If John Q. Doe does something stupid to create the news at 11:25 a.m., by 1:30 p.m. Google Trends will demonstrate a cute little spike in people researching Mr. doe. As the public's fickle interest diminishes you can see the graph ultimately drop back to zero. Never has there been a better tool to plan the fleetingness of any persons fifteen minutes.
Click farmers rejoice:
In case you haven't observed, there is very small real content on the internet anymore. Instead, you have thousands and thousands of web pages that concealing outfit themselves as content sites in order to convince the webonaut (ie; you and I) to click on interesting advertisements or purchase tantalizing products. The suppliers of these sites (the click farmers) may be very good at disguising their websites to appear like real companies, real portals and real content in general. The actuality is that there is nothing there.
This takes us backside to Google trends. Savvy click farmers and domain registrants keep a pointed eye on the trends. Interest in a new term or subject marked on Google trends can mean rapid bucks for a fast click farmer. Particularly in those cases where there is not already much content related to a new subject of interest. All the click farmer has to do is assembling a couple of pages of comparative text (read that as search terms) and acquire it indexed by Google, Yahoo, etc.
Let's look at a case in point. Three of the newest searches (as of the writing of this article) on Google are Cindy Sheehan, Riyo Mori, and Rachel Smith. Cindy Sheehan proclaimed that she's giving up the life of a professional protestor. Riyo Mori just won the Miss Universe parade. Rachel Smith (Miss USA) slipped and fell down during the Miss Universe competition. By throwing jointly a dummy site or two that mentions these three people a quick click farmer could draw the attention of the search engines. Sad, isn't it? And that's what the web has turn out to be. Not anything more. So, maintain your eye on Google Trends. You may be astonished at how rapidly search terms there become content elsewhere.
