Google Zeitgeist Replaced by Hot Trends
As I mentioned in my article, Leveraging Google’s Zeitgeist, incorporating up and coming search terms can give your blog a search engine boost. I hadn't looked at any of the search terms recently and was surprised when I brought up the zeitgeist today. It has been replaced!
From the zeitgeist page:
On May 22, 2007, the original Google Zeitgeist for Google.com was replaced by Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends. Visit Hot Trends for regular updates throughout the day into what people are searching for on Google.
Browsing through the hot trends, I was amused by number "82. britney spears thong bikini". A whole lot of people must be looking for this for it to pop up in the top 100 searches. Further investigation revealed numbers "55. britney spears puerto vallarta" and "25. britney spears mexico". Curious as always, I clicked on number 82. Aha! Britney Spears wore a thong bikini to the beach in Mexico and some paparazzi snapped a picture. The number 1 result talked about it but the number 2 result had pictures.
Is this what's hot in the USA? Frankly, I'm amazed that people are still interested in Britney after all the shenanigans she's been involved in.
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This is a subtle hint to Sean at Geek With Laptop that I'm impatiently awaiting the categories version of SRG Clean Archives. If and when he completes it, I plan to remove the "Archives" and "Categories" widgets from my sidebar and change the names of the "Extended Archives" and "Extended Categories" pages to replace them completely.
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The categories version of SRG Clean Archives is coming very soon.
I've got the majority of it coded up now, just doing some testing.
Of course, soon as it's ready for public use, I'll post about it.
Thanks again for the suggestion and poke to check in on me
Your feedburner feed no longer works using Live Bookmarks. When I click the RSS link (in the navigation bar) it goes to feedburner's website instead of the default firefox message asking me how I would like to subscribe. Do you think I should use the default wordpress feed instead?
I was never one for outsourcing (so to speak) default functionality (like RSS) to external services.
EDIT: it was the URL which changed. I got the link to subscribe. Never mind. Also commented in the wrong topic as usual
Hahaha Hari. I was going to reply that it was odd because I had 10 subscribers using Live Bookmarks. The latest version of WordPress added another kind of feed, so it probably messed with things.
Awesome little site. I've been using it for several days now, just playin' around with it. For the last couple of days, I've been the #1 listing for searches related to the Mississippi Braves manager video. I think I'm #2 today, but I was getting nailed by Google for the searches…very nice.
Sorta reminds me of blogpulse.com but a little better…only a little though.
Yeah…I read about this on John Chow's website, I go there marginally…
Oh, thanks for the Brittney Spears links…I've been wondering where I was going to get my next wallpaper background from!
Actually, the United States(ers) aren't so interested in this stuff…it's those damn folks from down under that keep searching for her thong! lol…
I sometimes wonder if Google is just pulling our leg when things like that show up at the top. LOl, fake results hehehe
Kim