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Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter
- Mistone 18y agosuper cool tool, thanks for the tip andrew. This is a nice top level analysis and correlation, leave hardcore research to analysts. I'm all for "putting in keywords are looking at pretty graphs." (edited)
- bprater 18y agoCorrect grammar and punctuation please.
- Mistone 18y agoare you kidding? -3 points down? I'm not writing a dissertation I'm making a comment.
- immad 18y agoI think most of the - points were for "leave hardcore research to analysts"
- Mistone 18y agofair enough, I was jokingly referencing this comment from @jowyang "Friends, before you go ape shiggles for Google Insight, please note the data is NOT USAGE, it's just querying the frequency of search terms" http://twitter.com/jowyang/statuses/885631287 http://twitter.com/jowyang/statuses/885631287 jokes and odd references often get lost in textual translation.
- pongle 18y agoA very interesting look at the results of Google Insights. When I have a moment I'll see if I can find public sales/growth figures for a few companies and compare them to their Google Insight results to see whether there is any correlation.
- Morieris 18y agoObligatory self-referential search for ycombinator: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=ycombinator&geo=US http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=ycombinato...
- wildwood 18y agoAnd if you limit the time-frame to the last 12 months, everything but CA disappears. I guess everybody in the northeast who's interested already has it bookmarked?
- GavinB 18y agoTwitter's heavy focus in states with major cities probably looks very much like early graphs of cell phone use. I still have a hard time imagining it spreading, but I guess I haven't been bit by the twitterbug yet.
- phil_KartMe 18y agoTechCrunch notes that: "Chen included the '.com” at the end of each site’s name when he created his maps (”techcrunch.com,” “twitter.com,” etc.)....Only nerds add the “.com” in the search box when they are looking for a site." This affects results significantly. here is the TC link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/if-you-are-a-techcrunch-reader-outside-of-california-raise-your-hand/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/if-you-are-a-techcrunch...