Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Google Search Results Now Show Hot Trends

With millions of Google searches performed every day, it makes sense that what people are searching for can be a good indicator of what has captured the interest of the U.S. and the world.

That's exactly what Google Trends does: it tells you what's currently popular on the search engine via its Hot Trends feature, which displays how popular the search is and graphs out the volume of searches over time.

But sadly Google Trends is not widely known about as it is a destination site, but Google are about to change this and have announced that it has integrated Google Trends in actual Google Search results.

The integration is rather simple. Now when you search a hot trend, you will find the trend and its graph at the bottom of the search engine results page (SERP), you will find its hotness, how it ranks in the top 100 most popular searches, and the search volume graph

Google's been busy lately with new additions. Search snippets and Place Pages are just two of the small additions/tweaks that add a new layer of functionality to Google Search to keep at bay Bing, there are plenty more features still to come.