Subscribing to a color-trend service can be either market savvy or suicide.
When Google released its Flu Trends service last week, the Drudge Report flashed a headline that read: "Sick Surveillance: Google Reports Flu Searches, Locations to Feds".
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has released a new version of its Flu Trends service that is tailored for Mexico in the hope of helping health officials and others track the spread of swine flu in that country.
More than 295 million people in 20 countries around the world have Internet access from a residential personal computer, according to findings from a new Nielsen/NetRatings global Internet trends service.
According to data teased out of the Google Trends service, the phrases "new york times india" and "washington post india" are searched eight times as much in India, as a proportion of all Indian searches, as the equivalent in the United States.
Meanwhile, the "Data" section of News Lab links to the recently updated Google Trends service and highlights media organizations which have used Google Trends data in their reporting.
Google announced today it's expanding the focus of its Google Trends service – the site that lets anyone track what the world's web searchers are looking for in both real time and non-real time.
The site will feature a number of tools for newsrooms, including tutorials and best practices on how to use Google products in reporting, as well as provide access to the recently updated Google Trends service, and more.
The Google Trends service is often used by researchers and journalists who use the data to report on major events happening around the world, and their impact on culture.
Google provides the relative popularity of two or more terms through its Google Trends service to the general public, but absolute figures are not included.
But Mr. Blumenthal subscribes to 15 color-trend services, including Pantone.
