Friday, September 21, 2007

What's Hot ~ Research

Here are some great tools you can use to research what's hot right now at this very second.

Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?hl=en

How it works:
With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

Google Trends 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. We then show you a graph with the results -- our search-volume graph -- plotted on a linear scale.


Wikirage:
http://www.wikirage.com/

This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomenon.

Top Searches on AOL:
http://hotsearches.aol.com/

Amazon Best Sellers:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/ref=sv_gw_3/102-6871697-4666528

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