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Google Trends: Mindjet, MindManager, and Mind Mapping

Technorati Tag(s): , , — May 13, 2006 @ 5:45 pm

Google has added a new tool to its ever-growing portfolio of Google Lab beta-releases: Google Trends allows you to enter up to five topics and then see in a so-called "search volume graph" how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories and which geographic regions have searched for them most often. The service analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.

Let’s look at some trends:

Mind Mapping and Mindjet (the peaks appear to coincide with our product launches)

http://google.com/trends?q=mind+mapping%2C+mindjet&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Mind Mapping vs. Business Mapping (we introduced this term in 2004)

http://google.com/trends?q=mind+mapping%2C+business+mapping&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Mind Mapping and MindManager (hand in hand…)

http://google.com/trends?q=mind+manager%2C+mind+mapping&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

By the way, try to enter your name and you will most likely be disappointed. Unless you’re a celebrity or another person of public interest, you’ll be told that your “search volume is not sufficient" to yield trend results. Having your own search volume graph is now another desirable credential in the meritocracy of the Google universe.

Tim Leberecht
Director of Global Communications
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  1. Posted May 14th, 2006, 12:55 am by AdminID

    Also check out Technorati and BlogPulse for Trends…

    http://www.technorati.com/chart/mindmanager
    http://blogpulse.com/trend?query1=mindmanager&label1=&query2=&label2=&query3=&label3=&days=60&x=0&y=0

    Thanks,
    AdminID

  2. Posted May 14th, 2006, 7:47 am by Tim Leberecht

    Yes - by the way, Shel Holtz conducts an interesting comparison of Google Trends and BlogPulse’s Trend Search, pointing out that both services look at different things. While BlogPulse allows you to create graphs that visually track buzz over time for certain key words in blogs, Google Trends does not include blogs at all.
    http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/which_trends_matter/

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