I’m confused by the therabreath story and how it relates to google trends being bad? I see data that matches all my expectations for searches of that mouthwash.
Most days trends shows zero searches for therabreath. The most it ever shows is 100 searches in a day. The data is spikey.
Search for "land cruiser forum" vs "land cruiser community" -- zero data
In the old days, trends would show you data for almost any query.. it was based off the number of people searching for those terms.
I find it hard to believe that not a single person has searched for land cruiser forum or land cruiser community in the past 30 days.
Almost anything i search for that isn't something wildly popular or current has no data.... pick any non popular term and what do you see?
Edit: I'm seeing data now... refreshed and put therabreath for past 5 years and now there is data. Just a few minutes ago there were spikes of 100 searches, 75 searches, about 15 times over 5 years. Very strange.
You should learn how to use the tool before calling it worthless. I didn't thought I would defend google today. The 100 is not the number of searches, 100 means the peak of popularity.
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What are you missing? What do you want more of?
Search for "land cruiser forum" vs "land cruiser community" -- zero data
In the old days, trends would show you data for almost any query.. it was based off the number of people searching for those terms.
I find it hard to believe that not a single person has searched for land cruiser forum or land cruiser community in the past 30 days.
Almost anything i search for that isn't something wildly popular or current has no data.... pick any non popular term and what do you see?
Edit: I'm seeing data now... refreshed and put therabreath for past 5 years and now there is data. Just a few minutes ago there were spikes of 100 searches, 75 searches, about 15 times over 5 years. Very strange.