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Over the last couple of years, I’ve been tracking the top 5 hot searches in India on Google Trends (http://www.google.co.in/trends). Here are the results: If you're interested in making visualisations out of it, please feel free. But there's one particular thing I'm trying out, which is to categorise these searches and see if there's a trend around that. I've added a "Tag" column. Could you please help me tag the spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Av599tR_jVYgdE5zTU5QWjcxVWVCaTBuY3d0NkUtc1E&hl=en_GB It’s publicly editable, no special access required. If you could stick to the tags I already have (Business, Education, Entertainment, News, Politics, Sports, Technology), that would be great. If not, that’s fine as well. And if you’ve made any visualisations or done any analysis using this data, please do drop a comment. ...

Yahoo Clues is like Google Insights for Search. It has one interesting thing that the latter doesn’t though: search flows. It doesn’t have an official API, so I thought I’d document the unofficial one. The API endpoint is http://clues.yahoo.com/clue The query parameters are: q1 – the first query string q2 – the second query string ts – the time span. 0 = today, 1 = past 7 days, 2 = past 30 days tz – time zone? Not sure how it works. It’s just set to “0” for me s – the format? No value other than “j” seems to work So a search for “gmat” for the last 30 days looks like this: ...

Why is nanotechnology in the top Google queries from India? Comments ravi 15 Apr 2006 10:48 am: from all countries in the list indians are the only one with something technical in their queries. hurrah for that Prabhu 17 Apr 2006 6:03 am: Could be due to the fact that Sujatha is writing an article about it in a tamil weekly S Anand 17 Apr 2006 7:37 am: If so, Tamil Nadu would have to be a big chunk of India’s Google searches. Given the absense of other Tamil queries, I doubt this was the only factor… but it sure must have contributed! Gautam 26 Apr 2006 6:05 pm: funny how sania mirza ranks over aishwarya, though !

Google India Zeitgeist.

Google Zeitgeist: trends in Google searches. (Zeitgeist means “the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era”). Similar to Buzz and Lycos50. Other sites that offer search profiles are AskJeeves, Search.com, Excite, and Goto.

Keep up with Yahoo’s buzz.