Thing I found most interesting about this is - it allows you to 'Share' your results on Google Buzz, Google Reader and, most shockingly, Facebook.
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#62My first try, with a hockey-stick growth pattern starting 2007. Expected a match with "twitter," instead got "baby poop." http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:iOj8ICadD...
I believe twitter didn't start seeing crazy growth until 2009 once they focus on activating their users and moving away from the idea that everyone needs to tweet to use twitter.
Google trends seems to confirm 2009 was when it started to really work too http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=twitter#q=twitter&cmp...
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#63Apparently the internet was (comparatively) less funny between 2006 and 2012: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AO6yJxan...
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#64Can someone elaborate on the method they use?
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The younger crowd is more likely to inquisitively understand computers better and realize they aren't just a dumb tool to be used to view facebook." Why would the younger crowd of the future be any more likely to want to understand the underlying workings of a computer than today's younger crowd who uses a computer to view Facebook? I would argue that, young or old, those who want to know how their appliances work w…
Todays facebook crowd didn't grow up engrossed in consumer computers and the Internet from infancy, but from their preteens. I imagine the millenials will, having grown up entirely exposed to pervasive international information sharing, be more inquisitive as to how the devices that dictate their social lives work. I mean, it is just my impression, but my 10 year old half brother can sit down at a Linux box and insta…
Do you know how your refrigerator works? automobile? What about the mechanization of the lock on your front door? could you construct a radio from base components?
Alas, no. I think we will have a generation of computer programmers just as likely as we would have a future one of plumbers, electricians, home-builders, or even exercise and health specialists.
I think it may be the opposite. Yes, fewer programmers by 2050 than today.
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#66This is hilarious.
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#67This is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something with a rather unlikely looking feature— a graph that strikes the reader as quite definitely not just random noise. See if you get anything interesting in return. If yes, conjure up a backstory, and write up a post in a confident, assertive tone, that closes wi…
Draw a positive line which abruptly goes to 0 and invent conspiracy theories about what they're trying to hide from us. Is brooks pharmacy being censored by the government?! (1) Doctors hate them, lobbyists~ etc... Source: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVG...
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#68This is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something with a rather unlikely looking feature— a graph that strikes the reader as quite definitely not just random noise. See if you get anything interesting in return. If yes, conjure up a backstory, and write up a post in a confident, assertive tone, that closes wi…
That's far too much effort when they can just monitor RSS feeds and reword someone else's work.
Why do you think they'd actually monitor those themselves? Get a bot to monitor them, and a text spinner to reword the texts.
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#69"Please sign in to use this tool." That's all I see when I am not signed in. Too confident on Google's part that the people will always be signed in or do they actually need any personal info to use this tool?
Maybe it's a rate limiting thing? This is a relatively expensive search, and they probably don't want people to mechanically download all the graphs. The UI does support uploading your own time series data.