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[The Beatles]

Ooohhh...
http://google.com/trends


Here are some graphs that I found very interesting.

Graphs that indicate Trends:
* GMail, Email
* Wikipedia
* blog
* Myspace
* NSA

Graphs that highlight Events:
* Da Vinci
* Hurricane
* earthquake
* Cheney
* Pink Floyd
* Trafalgar
* Harry Potter
* Michael Jackson
* Star Wars
* brad pitt
* King Kong
* McKinnon

Graphs that illustrate Priorities:
* Iran, North Korea, Libya
* Janet Jackson, Tsunami, Katrina, Kerry, London (US only)
* Weapons of Mass Destruction
* Iran, North Korea, Libya
* Afghanistan, Iraq

Graphs that show Attention Span:
* Reagan, Pope
* Tsunami
* Kerry
* flu
* New Orleans

Graphs that show Seasonal Variation:
* Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring
* new years, easter, halloween, thanksgiving, christmas
* tax forms, tax extension
* gyms, new years resolutions

Graphs that show Piggybacking:
* Camilla, Prince Charles
* John Lennon, Yoko Ono
* Mossad, Spielberg
* yankees, red sox
* Microsoft, EU
* Bin Laden, Al-Jazeera

Graphs that show Correlation:
* Bomb, Tube (UK only)
* Katrina, gas
* Bin Laden, Edwards (US only)
(I used Edwards as Kerry produced so many hits it squashed Bin Laden.)
* Bin Laden, Al-Jazeera
* christmas, ps2, ipod
* Israel, Palestine
* US, USA, Bush, Election
* Peter Jackson
* Osama, Bin Laden

Graphs that plot Popularity:
* Firefox, Mozilla, Opera
* Sinatra, Morrisette
* London, New York, Tokyo, Paris
* Beatles, Led Zeppelin
* Slashdot, Digg
* Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
* C, Java, php, perl, python
* Christianity, Islam, Zen, Buddhism

Miscellaneous:
* terrorism
* Thatcher
* War, Peace
* Windows Vista, Windows Longhorn

[The Beatles]

Some interesting queries Slashdotters have posted -- some of these are interesting in terms of the regions they are accessed from
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=tits
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=ass
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=usama
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab ... ll&geo=all
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+sense
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn
* http://google.com/trends?q=Jesus%2C+Beatles
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=sms

Really cool:
* http://www.google.com/trends?q=american+idol

[bjornredtail]

Ohhh... Great Fun.

UNR v. UNLV
SCO's Downward Sprial, at least in general intrest in the company.

[Nohc]

Wow, those are really cool...

[The Beatles]

Languages:
the, el, le, der, il
el, le, der, il, la

[Kraken]

the most facinating post in this thread is the fact that nohc has posted a response! is there a trend for that?

[windhound]

there was Kraken.. over a year ago when it was actually posted

on a related note, Google Analytics has gotten much shiner since I last saw it.. I actually liked some of their older ways of doing things, but its overall a nicer tool now.

oh.. and
the start of lolcats: http://www.google.com/search?q=trends?q=lolcats
ubuntu: http://google.com/trends?q=ubuntu
though, over all linux is on a decline: http://google.com/trends?q=linux
blips on new releases http://google.com/trends?q=fedora

overall pretty cool, yup