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See the most popular new years resolutions in the UK and US from 2004 - 2011 according to Google
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Why are cupcakes so popular?
October 4, 2011
Watch how a trend sweeps the globe over the course of seven years using Google's insights for search tool
Posted in: Google insights for search
Spiders and Conkers
September 29, 2011
Digging into an old wives tale with the help of Google insights for search gives surprising results...
Posted in: Google insights for search, Identifying trends
The wheel of hunger
September 28, 2011
What are the most popular food searches every month? And how do you present this data without boring the pants off people? Find out with the WHEEL OF HUNGER!!
Posted in: Search visualisations
Search engine data visualisations
September 9, 2011
What do people search for on the internet? Find out with a series of visualisations that show the top searches in subjects as diverse as gardening and science, nature and health.
Posted in: Search visualisations
The most asked questions on Google
September 1, 2011
What are the most popular questions asked on the internet? When are people more likely to ask questions? Find out with this simple visualisation.
Posted in: Search visualisations
Are infographics becoming infoGRAPHICS?
August 5, 2011
‘A picture paints a thousand words’ so the saying goes and that, in a nutshell, is the power and magic of the infographic. However with the recent rise in the popularity of them, are we starting to lose the plot? Is style winning over substance? Part of the definition of an infographic is that “graphics present… [Read more…]
Posted in: Uncategorized
What do people search for? Health
July 29, 2011
Last weeks post looked at what people searched for in seven areas: Health, Food, Nature, Gardening, History, Religion and Science. This week we’ll drill down into one of those areas, Health. The categories here aren’t comprehensive. The data editor (me) has simply taken keywords of interest or volume and grouped them together under a name… [Read more…]
Posted in: Search visualisations
Our thirst for knowledge
July 22, 2011
I’ve recently been working on trying to map out people’s appetite for knowledge online and the BBC’s ‘voice’ within each topic with James Webb. In order to do this I grouped hundreds of websites into different categories and measured the volume of traffic going to each of those genres over the course of a year… [Read more…]
Posted in: Search visualisations
Why do we need help?
July 8, 2011
What do the UK public want when they ask for help on a search engine? Find out with the aid of statistics and a wordle.
Posted in: Search intent, Search visualisations
November 4, 2011
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