Google Trends
I came across Google Trends today. It’s an interesting tool if you want to know if something, someone or a company is popular or dying. It also cross-references news items so that you get to know what the key issues are. It also shows you which regions of the world are doing the most searches.
As an example, I took Symbian…
The graph shows people have been especially interested since the time labelled ‘C’. The cross referenced news items are as follows…
So, people have been interested in Symbian since the investors increased their states. Also, the spike in licencing e-mail technology probably shows this is a key issue for Symbian.
Let’s look at the cities searching for information on Symbian…
Ummm, not so good. Looks like lots of offshoring about to happen 