Indiana election results were this afternoon's hottest Google trend.
The Google Maps trend has created a new dynamic in the GIS industry.
Google reversed the trend of slowing revenue growth in its core online-advertising business and posted a 6.7% increase in quarterly profit.
At least one Google executive would trend towards the latter.
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For companies like Google and Microsoft, the trend opens up a whole new market for their technologies while creating a new competitive threat for traditional carmakers like General Motors and Ford Motor.
For some things, like retail sales, the categories into which Google classifies its search-trend data correspond closely to what people may want to predict, such as the sales of a particular brand of car (see chart).
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Still, I think a favorable macro-trend is emerging for Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.
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Bing also increased the number of ads that were clicked on, reversing a yearlong trend that had benefited Google.
You see the trend among employees opting to use Google e-mail and documents instead of Microsoft Office.
It's a trend that Internet companies such as Google are desperate to exploit.
This was probably the first sign that a broader trend was underway, beyond the Google-triggered free-lunch-buffet party in Silicon Valley.
It's a trend that Internet companies such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) are desperate to exploit.
The question is whether there's time for the once-pioneering BlackBerry to catch up to Apple's trend-setting iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.
Boxee now supports HTML5 apps, which means that if you write an HTML page designed for 10ft it will work on any Boxee and Google TV devices, and hopefully other platforms will embrace this trend rather than try and invent their own platforms, which makes life hard for content owners, developers and ultimately slows down innovation in this space.
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The trend notwithstanding, JumpTV is a long way from attracting Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) attention.
The project is part of a broader trend: Innovative consumer hits, like the iPhone, Google Earth, Second Life, and the Wii remotes and accessories, are increasingly put to unexpected -- and often unauthorized -- uses by outside researchers and tinkerers.
Jeremy Gutsche, the chief trend hunter at Trendhunter.com, notes that "Google search volume for archery has remained relatively constant" for archery over the years, but that's not to say it hasn't made a splash: He saw archery-infused fashion shoots crop up this year.
In fact, Google's good news in bad times may be based in a bigger trend.
One is the proliferating use of cheap servers powered by commodity chips--a trend that has made Dell four times bigger than Sun and has given Google a cost edge over its rivals.
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