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You seriously mean to tell me that the most popular search on Google for 2013 is 'Paul Walker' followed by 'iPhone 5s'? What? Surely 'Weather' would be higher

• aroch 13y ago
  Fairly sure they've filtered out what might constitute "low importance" searched like terms such as 'weather'. Searches for the weather probably remain relatively stable and don't really tell us anything.
• chaz 13y ago
  It's actually "Top 100 [Trending] Searches." They could have been more clear about that. http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013 http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013
  • boomzilla 13y ago
    Yes, it's trending searches, not most popular ones. By the way, non-engineers/non-analytical people usually have trouble differentiating the two. I can't recall how many meetings with product/business people that I have to explain the concepts.
• chimeracoder 13y ago
  I imagine this is a variant of a Latent Dirichlet Allocation[0]. Informally, this will identify words "most associated" with 2013, which is not the same thing as the most searched words in 2013. Put another way, unless there's a huge spike of interest in the weather in 2013 compared to other years, "weather" won't be included. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation
• fvrghl 13y ago
  I also wondered why the death of Paul Walker was in the video. Surely Lou Reed was more influential, yet his death wasn't mentioned.