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Predicting the Present with Google Trends
A hypothesis done by Hyunyoung Choi & Hal Varian
E-Business Technology Prof. Dr. Eduard Heindl Presented by Martin Maduka Ejeagwu
Google Trend is a feature in Google where people could search for the most searched subject of the world.
Simply go to: http://www.google.com/trends
Google Trends computes a search volume in proportion to the total number of every other search on Google and then provides viewers with an index graph. The result generated is then normalized with a certain variable so that they start at 0 January 1, 2004. Just below the X-axis of the Google index graph one can see the News reference volume which shows the number of times the subject appeared in Google News stories.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#7
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Google Labs
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Search Trends field
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Examples
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Today‘s Hot Trends
Experience Google Trends
Figure 1 ; FIFA South Africa 1 source : http://www.google.de/trends?q=fifa+south+africa + ; Assessed on 20 June 2009
Notice Regional Difference
Figure 2; FIFA South Africa; South Africa 2 source: http://www.google.de/trends?q=fifa+south+africa +; Assessed on 20th June 2009
Figure 4; Swine Flu source; http://www.google.de/trends?q=swine+flu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 ; Assessed on 20 th June 2009
Figure 5; Vaccine Swine Flu source: http://www.google.de/trends?q=vaccine+swine+flu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all ; Assessed on 20th June 2009
Google Trend is a hypothesis but true.
It gives a real time value of every topic recorded by it, this we can see from the graphs which I have included.
Sources
Figure 1 ; FIFA South Africa 1 source : http://www.google.de/trends?q=fifa+south+africa + ; Assessed on 20 June 2009 Figure 2; FIFA South Africa; South Africa 2 source: http://www.google.de/trends?q=fifa+south+africa +; Assessed on 20th June 2009 Figure 3; FIFA South Africa; South Africa 3 source: http://www.google.de/trends?q=fifa+south+africa +; Assessed on 20th June 2009 Figure 4; Swine Flu source; http://www.google.de/trends?q=swine+flu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 ; Assessed on 20 th June 200 Figure 5; Vaccine Swine Flu source: http://www.google.de/trends?q=vaccine+swine+flu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all ; Assessed on 20th June 2009