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Google trends lack an absolute number for scales, which makes comparing across searches pretty difficult. Therefore when I use it I always put in a "calibration" keyword. When searching for trends on mainstream events, "sex" or "porn" are good ones. But when searching on Peak Oil or other doom topics, they dwarf the signal (depressing huh ?).

Pierre

by Pierre on Thu Nov 22nd, 2007 at 08:33:59 AM EST

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Searching Google for sex must be the very definition of futility in most parts of the world.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Nov 22nd, 2007 at 01:23:33 PM EST
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Where do you put calibration, how?

Check apples and oranges,
apple and microsoft,
gym and yoga,
success vs failure,
and colors.

by das monde on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 12:45:03 AM EST
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oh, it's simply one extra keyword, unrelated to any topic I search, but that will be present on all graphs, so I can compare the other curves (it replaces the missing vertical scale labels - probably google doesn't want to disclose absolute numbers because it would say too much about it's processing volumes)

Pierre

by Pierre on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 05:32:14 AM EST
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More like apple vs. orange, too (orange being a French mobile phone operator: check out the load from France)

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 10:47:57 AM EST
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Ok, here are then apples and oranges literally :-)

by das monde on Sun Nov 25th, 2007 at 10:08:08 PM EST
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