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February 7, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Mike Warot
Doc, you killed google!
It’s too busy, or so it claims.
Perhaps the next cluetrain could offer a clue to Americans about the true state of the Union?
February 7, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Mike Warot
It’s interesting to compare apples and oranges:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Apple%2C+orange&ctab=0
orange is a lot more popular in France for some reason….
It just goes to show that search 1.0 (keywords)… still sucks.
It would be better to be able to compare concepts
February 10, 2008 at 9:40 am
Aviv
Hi there thought you might be interested in a new facebook group we opened messing up with all kind of ideas regarding Google trends and other tools i invite to you to join in and of course others
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8181412285
10x
Aviv