Archive for May, 2008

How The Search Volume Is Calculated

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

In the beginning, GTrends SE was intended for those who participated with TDC 2007. So I didn’t describe the algorithm here, as TDC’ers would already be familiar with it. However, now I’ve gotten some inquiries from new users as to how, exactly, is the number in the “Searches” column calculated. So here’s the algorithm, in [...]

Google Blocks Another Keyword

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Google has banned the default reference keyword used by GTrends SE from Google Trends. Damn. Therefore, I just uploaded a new version, which uses a different keyword. Note that if you already have GTrends SE installed, downloading the new version will not automatically change your ref. keyword (this is by design). You need to change [...]

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