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Re: Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

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Post by PKop »

TheBiv wrote: post #27

Personal anecdote: I will google " Twitter" to get their Twitter feed so I wonder how many of those searches are not necessarily interest in the service rather interest in a specific person using the service.

For Google's "trend" purposes, I'm fairly certain this counts as interest in the service, no? Why would it not?

Since they have separate entries for Twitter and the others, listed as "Social network" vs. just simply "search term" this has to imply some difference in what they include as searches.

So perhaps all permutations of searching for things on Twitter, and others, are lumped into the main search term.

Re: Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

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Post by lacantina »

grandalf wrote: post #12
smallegan wrote: post #4

I was wondering why you didn't include and so I plunked it in there and then realized why you didn't include facebook: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...

I did the same thing. It sort of takes one's breath away.

What I find interesting is that Twitter and Facebook have the same graph shape, both peaking in 2013.

They should allow a log scale, then you could compare with Facebook more easily.

Re: Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

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Post by TheBiv »

PKop wrote: post #31
TheBiv wrote: post #27

Personal anecdote: I will google " Twitter" to get their Twitter feed so I wonder how many of those searches are not necessarily interest in the service rather interest in a specific person using the service.

For Google's "trend" purposes, I'm fairly certain this counts as interest in the service, no? Why would it not? Since they have separate entries for Twitter and the others, listed as "Social network" vs. just simply "search term" this has to imply some difference in what they include as searches. So perhaps all permutations of searching for things on Twitter, and others, are lumped into the main search term.

Definitely!! I just used my personal anecdote to say that my "interest" is rarely with the service it is with the people using the service.

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#38

Post by Veratyr »

gbog wrote: post #33

Ok, but let's not forget that half of internet is not there. E.g. Chinese people do not use Google. If we could agregate data qq.com could very well be above them all.

I went exploring the Chinese half of the internet for a while. It's amazing how different things are there, yet how similar they are.

Baidu seems essentially equivalent to Google, AliPay to PayPal and Weibo to Facebook.

As for differences, I noticed were how heavily integrated AliPay (and all the payment methods) were with the regular Chinese banking system, needing a local bank card to verify any account.

Also interesting how they handled file sharing. Baidu Pan seems to be the Chinese alternative to torrents or P2P.

Really though, the biggest take away I got was the inconceivable amount of information that isn't displayed to Westerners in search. The Chinese internet, with over 700m users, must be enormous but your average Western internet user doesn't see any of it.

Re: Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

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Post by mattei »

sachitgupta wrote: post #7
sachitgupta wrote: post #6

Interesting to see Snapchat and Instagram in there: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...

+ Whatsapp: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...

swap Twitter for Pinterest: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...

Re: Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

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Post by icanhackit »

md224 wrote: post #19

I like the growth chart for Reddit alone: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0b2334

Me too. Looks like sustainable growth. Reddit is basically a centralized Usenet, which is a good thing - interaction from people all over the world who don't know each other for the sake of knowledge sharing and discussion. And NSFW stuff.
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