September 10, 2007

Google Hot Trends Has a Feed

A good way to find the latest important events is to monitor the queries from a search engine and look at the queries that suddenly become popular. Google offers a list of "hot" queries updated hourly. For each query, you can see a chart that reflects its evolution and a list of search results that could explain why it became popular.

Now you can subscribe to Google Hot Trends' feed and keep an eye on what people are searching for. Note that the list is restricted to the US and the first feed item shows the most popular queries from the last hour.

The presentation isn't great, but this feed makes it easier to create web applications that use the data. There's also a third-party gadget that displays the top 10 queries.

You can use Google Reader to reconstruct the archive or just to search the feed and see how often the iPhone, Britney Spears or Ivan the Terrible were a hot topic.


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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2007 at 1:55 AM

    Yes! I have always wondered when they would add a feed. Sadly they don't advertise it on their page so most will never know about this feed. Like me untill I found it here. Thanks

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  2. Lakshman PrasadSeptember 11, 2007 at 2:02 AM

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  3. Lakshman PrasadSeptember 11, 2007 at 2:49 AM

    Infact there is a Quite popular Hot Trends Gadget for iGoogle. And in that way it makes much more sense than obtaining the feeds in the Reader I suppose.
    Moreover what is still more important is the Feeds from a particular country. I may not be as much interested in Hot Trends feeds of Google.com as much as Google.co.in

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  4. AnonymousApril 11, 2008 at 5:24 AM

    I use Mac OS X Automator to download and parse hot trands rss feed.
    See my blog. http://macibuki.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-hot-trends-automator-action-to.html

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  5. Google Trends FeedFebruary 8, 2012 at 5:10 AM

    I have made my view of their feed !
    http://trendsfeed.blogspot.com/

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