Google Trends 40 Items on Google Trends List Down from 100 -- Is this a new trend?
I just woke up to see only 40 items and popular search terms on Google Trends list today.
Normally, the Google Trends list has 100 terms instead of 40.
I wonder why they shortened the list to 40 and if it will stay this way, instead of 100?
I always wanted the list longer, not shorter.
Maybe too many people were gaming it, or using it to post automated garbage and virus stuff. I don't know.
What do you think about Google Trends list being shorter at 40 now?
C'est la vie...
Comments
I have one question to ask, how do you know if google have dinged your site, I am getting zero traffic for no reason from search engines.
I see your Designs Delight site is still in Google when I type site:designsdelight.com into Google, so that's a good thing.
Did you take out your stats code or change something?
Is there a site similar to google trends which has a longer list?
Some smaller search engine must have metrics to show what is happening.
I have a lot of blogs in my feeds to read -- and I look thru AP images to see what new pics are out each day.
I think AOL also has some hot trends, I've gotta find it.
It makes us look more places to do research, like TV and stuff.
But it's kind of good too, because then all the scrapers can't scrape a whole list of 100 items anymore.
I use GT as my primary source for news.
But the scraper deal is this: Some people automatically grab the Google Trends feed and then create blog posts from it that have nothing to do with the topic - they litter the Google serps with those results, and sometimes bad stuff.
So it's annoying. At least if people are going to use Google Trends, it's good when they actually write an informative article based around it, not just scrape the term and write nothing about it just to get some traffic to their sites without doing anything.
But Google shuts those down eventually, believe me, I know when I used wp-o-matic, but I never used it on Google Trends. You don't know what kind of crap can show up on Google Trends some days.
"Machwan Communication & Research, a company providing a full suite of custom business intelligence services including - database management, sales lead generation, loyalty program management, tele-prospecting/ telemarketing, market research, and CRM solutions."
Not sure if you have noticed or not but Google Trends has now been dropped to 20!
At least the scrapers have less to scrape!
Check out this long post of stuff I wrote and other places to check for info:
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