Google has added a new bit of functionality to its US and Japanese search which means that when you are looking for something that happens to be one of the hot trends it will display a graph on the page with extra data.
Google's hot trends functionality is a useful tool for looking at the zeitgeist, reporting on the trending searches.
And now, should what you are looking at correspond to what the world is searching for, you will get a handy graph in your search results that tells you much more.
Graph and data
"Now, when you search Google.com and your query matches one of the top 100 fastest-rising search terms, we'll show you a graph at the bottom of page, with more information — like how popular the query is, how fast it's rising over time, and other useful data," says Google's blog.
Although the feature uses the top-100 terms, Google has decided that the hot topics page itself should be cut down to the top-40 searches in order to simplify things
It's currently only functional in the US and Japan and there's no news on when this will be rolled out to UK searches, but the chances are it won't be too long before we see whether we're seeking with the masses.
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goinglikesixty
October 2nd
2. Here's why the Trends need to be 100, not 40.
About 1 pm CST Friday:
1. chicago olympics
2. 2016 olympics announcement
3. 2012 olympics location
4. stephanie birkitt
5. olympic bid
6. olympic voting
7. ioc vote
8. barcelona olympics
9. nbc chicago
10. ioc announcement
11. chicago eliminated
12. chicago 2016
13. chicago tribune
14. mr magic
15. did chicago get the olympics
16. abc7chicago
17. mr. magic
18. robert j. halderman
19. rio de janeiro olympics 2016
20. abc chicago
21. joe halderman
22. delmon young
23. zhu zhu pet hamster
24. olympic news
25. international olympic committee
26. ted williams
27. olympic decision
28. wgn
29. david letterman extortion
30. derrion albert footage
31. joe haldeman 48 hours
32. wgn radio
33. madrid olympics
34. summer olympics
35. 2014 olympics
36. elizabeth smart testimony transcript
37. 1800 bst
38. alcor life extension foundation
39. 2010 olympics
40. trapster
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goinglikesixty
September 29th
1. Hate that they cut top 100 down to 40. Is Gmail down (different versions) can take 20 spots. Celebs and other junk can take 20 spots on any given day.
Those other 60 sometimes had the good stuff!
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