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

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

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);
  • What’s hot on Facebook;
  • 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).
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