14 Places To Spot Popular Trends - What’s Hot Where and When?

August 11th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 14 Comments

A number of search engines and web portals track world’s hottest trends and get updated on a regular basis (instantly, daily or weekly):

What’s HOT in search?

Google hottest trends (updates throughout the day);
Yahoo buzz allows to see the daily buzz score (=”the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read“) and the move (i.e. how fast this has become popular):

Yahoo buzz

Top Ask.com searches: most searched at Ask.com past week;
Aol.com hot searches;
Daily MSN A-list;

What’s HOT around social media?

Delicious hot tags;
StumbleUpon popular tags (recently popular and all the time);
Popular Flickr tags (in the last 24 hours, over last week and overall);
Twitter hot topics: Twitscoop - lists most popular terms discussed at Twitter and displays the trend history in the form of a graph:

Twitscoop: hot Twitter trends

What’s HOT in blogosphere?

Technorati Popular: top searches and top blogs (in the last 48 hours);
BlogPulse key phrases allow for “trend this” option that graphically represents the trend history:

Blogpulse: hot keywords

What’s HOT in eCommerce?

Amazon tag cloud = which tags Amazon customers use to classify products;
EBay pulse = popular eBay searches.

What’s HOT everywhere?

SEOmoz popular searches aggregate data from most sources mentioned above (Google trends, Yahoo buzz, Technorati, etc).

Comments

14 responses so far ↓

lawton chiles on Aug 11, 2008 at 9:11 am

Thanks for the refresher course on trends and mapping out what is popular. It seems that sometimes, we don’t even know why things are popular, they just are.

However, knowing where to look for those popular, money-making terms is so essential and most don’t know how to use the data gathered, so thanks :)

Lawton
http://www.chilesadvertising.com
blue star web design services in tipperary, ireland on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:09 pm

this is indeed informative, sure to think of ways to capitalise on this gold mine of data!
Jaan Kanellis on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:59 pm

Lots of ways to find that niche that no one has covered yet by watching and using these tools.
Joe Williams on Aug 12, 2008 at 5:19 am

Another great list Ann.

I have found some joy with Google Current which is an online magazine based on today’s top queries
Nick Stamoulis on Aug 12, 2008 at 5:24 am

This is excellent information. It would be very interesting to see if there are any similar trends across the various networks…
Internet Marketing Uncut on Aug 12, 2008 at 8:59 am

Very good info. Its always nice to find a site willing to share useful information with the world. Consider yourself bookmarked.
Claye on Aug 12, 2008 at 9:43 am

Google Insights is also very helpful for spotting breaking industries and niches.
QualityGal on Aug 12, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Ooh thanks. I knew about some of these, but not others. The differences are quite interesting.
giuseppe on Aug 14, 2008 at 5:51 am

Useful information.Thanks a lot!
Gemking on Oct 1, 2008 at 9:07 am

A Very Good Info. It’s really difficult to find why the trends are varying and difficult to say why the trend is very popular.
Super Bright LEDs on Oct 6, 2008 at 10:02 am

Thanks a lot for your info.

You are very good at syndicating the resource.
Geek Tech on May 5, 2009 at 2:16 pm

This is a great list; all in one place. Thanks a lot. I had been looking for a list of trend websites! Should give me a good idea on what to write about
Richard Vanderhurst on May 19, 2009 at 4:03 am

Thanks Ann for this useful resource.
Angel on Jun 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm

Great List! Thanx, Ann