Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter

A very interesting look at the results of Google Insights. When I have a moment I'll see if I can find public sales/growth figures for a few companies and compare them to their Google Insight results to see whether there is any correlation.

TechCrunch notes that:

"Chen included the '.com” at the end of each site’s name when he created his maps (”techcrunch.com,” “twitter.com,” etc.)....Only nerds add the “.com” in the search box when they are looking for a site."

This affects results significantly.

here is the TC link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/if-you-are-a-techcrunch...

Obligatory self-referential search for ycombinator: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=ycombinato...

Twitter's heavy focus in states with major cities probably looks very much like early graphs of cell phone use. I still have a hard time imagining it spreading, but I guess I haven't been bit by the twitterbug yet.

super cool tool, thanks for the tip andrew. This is a nice top level analysis and correlation, leave hardcore research to analysts. I'm all for "putting in keywords are looking at pretty graphs."

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