Once I saw , I like it. It is a great idea to combine specific events with search keywords popularity. Though, Google Zeitgeist is limited to events chosen by Google according to its popularity accumulated through the past year. According to the popular of Zeitgeist, Google launched  to publish hourly zeitgeist on a TV channel, , and monthly zeitgeist. In addition, this idea has also been applied to .

Yesterday, Google has just  . By this service, you could see the same graph as you saw in zeitgeist and finance services. The are timelines of search volume and news volume with marker of specific news on these timelines. You will never see the specific number of that volumes. These numbers are invaluable. I could pay for them. In addition to these timelines, you will also see comparison of search volume regarding cities, regions, and language.

For example, let’s see the comparison of . In 2003-2004, Microsoft has been searched more than Google but situation had changed since the beginning of 2005. It seems Google started blogging and weekly released new products at the time. Next example is . The interesting trend is that perl is going away but it is very popular in Bangalore. Next one, let me try to compare . Surprisingly, nobody searches for utility computing but there are news volume comparable to grid computing. Cluster computing is already out and again, India is the most active country in grid technology following by Pakistan and Singapore.

For the last example, let me compare top 5 popular CMSs, . Interesting, Mambo is very popular comparing to others but Joomla can hit the top record in the first quater of 2006 while Mambo dropped significantly. PostNuke is going out. Typo3 is slightly more popular than Drupal but Drupal improves its popularity a little bit faster since the beginning of 2005. Drupal 4.8 may win Typo3 someday.

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