Monday, June 22, 2009

Digging into Google Autocomplete Data

Following up to "What Google Really Thinks About Social Media", I put together a Yahoo pipe I called "Expose Google autocomplete data", which shows additional data about the Google autocomplete query of your choice.

The numbers below each result correspond to the value of num_queries provided by the Google Suggest API. I'm not sure exactly what they mean, but they are in all likelihood correlated with the frequency of the corresponding searches.

For some reason the Pipes widget doesn't let you pick a string, but the pipe itself does. Just click through to Yahoo Pipes if you'd like to try different queries.



Update: D'Arcy Norman: Google on Google. The snark bites back!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

What Google Really Thinks about Social Media

I'm not making this up! See by yourself. (You may have to turn Google Suggest on.)

Further reading: danah boyd: is Facebook for old people?