Google's Trends FAQ says Google Trends filters out searches made by Google products and services, including the internal searches made by AI Mode and AI Overviews.
Google Trends Help · Day 2 · Google Trends
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Google Trends
Google's free tool that shows how search interest in a term or topic changes over time and across places, as a share of all searches.
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- In Google’s docs
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- Said at the event
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- Not in docs
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- Kit items
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Google’s documentation 5
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Google's Trends Help says Google Trends compares up to 8 groups of terms at once, with up to 50 terms in each group, while Classic explore (the legacy page) supports 5 groups of up to 25 terms.
Google Trends Help · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google's August 2024 blog post said Trending now was available in 125 countries, with regional trends in 40 of them; the current Trends Help page says 100+ countries and regions.
Google blog (14 August 2024), Google Trends Help · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google's Trends FAQ says Google Trends adds statistical noise to protect privacy, so one-off spikes on queries with low or no search interest may be noise rather than real search activity.
Google Trends Help · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google's Search Central guide to Google Trends says to use Trends to inform a content strategy only where a topic fits the business and its users, and to focus on terms where the site has expertise and experience.
Google Search Central · Day 2 · Google Trends
Said at the event 41
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
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A Google Trends chart of worldwide search interest in AI from 2004 to mid-2025 showed a huge rise in the two to three years before mid-2025.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
An early-2012 worldwide spike in Google Trends search interest for 'ai' was caused by the global hit song 'Ai Se Eu Te Pego', whose title contains the Portuguese word 'ai', not by interest in artificial intelligence.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
A Google Trends engineer found the cause of the 2012 'ai' spike by zooming in on that time range on the Explore page and reading the related queries.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Worldwide Google Trends search interest for ski since 2004 shows strong seasonality, peaking every winter.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Worldwide Google Trends search interest for ski also shows a mostly steady decline since 2004, which can be misread as falling search volume.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said its internal numbers show the actual volume of ski-related searches is going up, even though ski's share of all searches in Google Trends has declined since 2004.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
A Google Trends chart of US search interest over five years showed umbrella and sunscreen correlated, both peaking in June, against the common assumption that umbrella searches peak in winter.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said journalists use Google Trends' Trending now every morning to find content gaps: topics people are searching for that their publication may need to cover.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said the search terms returned by Google Trends' Suggest search terms are ranked by search interest.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
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A Google slide showed nine Google Trends charts of trust-checking searches in several markets and languages (source line: Google Trends, January 2016 to March 2026, web search), all rising toward the end of the range: 'is [brand] legit?' (two panels), '[brand] è affidabile?', '[brand] jest bezpieczne?', 'Is [brand] betrouwbaar?', 'Ist [brand] seriös?', '[brand] est fiable?', '¿es [brand] falso?' and 'trustpilot'.
Google Trends shows a rise since about 2020 in searches of the form 'is [brand] legit', in the UK and in most other countries Google looked at.
Consistent with docs 15
Google Discover is not included in Google Trends, because Discover is a content feed with no search box, while Trends counts only the queries people type into Google Search or YouTube.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said Google Trends data is almost real time, reaching up to a few minutes before the moment of viewing.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
The Google Trends Explore page, which Google called the heart of Trends, shows search interest in a query or topic and how it changes over time.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said Trends' Trending now covered 125 countries at the time of the talk (October 2026), plus regions within many of those countries.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Real-world events such as product launches show up directly in Google Trends search interest graphs.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google advised being curious and digging deeper when explaining a pattern in Google Trends, because context matters and the obvious explanation is sometimes wrong.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Because total Google searches were far fewer in 2004 than today, a falling search interest share in Google Trends can hide a rising number of searches.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google stressed that the difference between search interest and search volume matters most when reading very long time ranges in Google Trends.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google presented three uses of Google Trends for content creation, marketing and SEO: keyword selection, scheduling and ideation.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google recommended using the keywords with higher search interest in Google Trends in page titles and marketing campaigns.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
For ideation, Google recommended Google Trends' Trending now, where a real-world event shows up within about ten minutes as people hear the news and search for it.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends' Suggest search terms combines Gemini's knowledge of the world with Google Trends data.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Trends TV, at trends.google.com/tv, is a little-known Google Trends dashboard of what is trending on Google right now, meant for an office screen or as a screensaver.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google has published a YouTube series of about eight episodes on using Google Trends for research, journalism, marketing and SEO.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google said the difference between words and entities can be seen in Google Trends, where a term can be searched as words or as an entity (Trends calls these a search term and a topic).
John Mueller · Day 3 · Making sense of users' queries
Confirmed by docs 14
Google Trends is a free Google tool that gives access to a sample of aggregated, anonymized and categorized searches.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends data covers searches on Google Search, including web, image, shopping and news search, plus searches on YouTube.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends data can be viewed for the whole world, for a single country or for a region within a country, for example Spain or Catalonia.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends offers time ranges from the past hour or the past day back to 2004, so search patterns can be compared across two decades.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends has two flagship experiences: the Explore page and Trending now.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Trending now, a tab at the top of Google Trends, shows the topics people are searching for on Google right now.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends shows search interest, not search volume: each point on its 0 to 100 scale represents the share of searches for the term out of all searches.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends' commonly searched queries come as top queries, with the highest search interest or volume, and rising queries, with the largest increase from the previous time frame to the current one.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google recommended checking both the top and the rising commonly searched queries in Google Trends when selecting keywords.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Where a topic is seasonal in Google Trends, Google said the pattern predicts the next wave of search interest, which is the time to run a marketing campaign or have content ready.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google warned that assumptions about when search interest peaks are sometimes wrong, and advised checking the pattern in Google Trends for your own target market.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends' Suggest search terms picks the search terms or topics to compare from a plain-language request, which helps in a field you know little about, for example the most popular jazz singers in Japan.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Google Trends' Suggest search terms compares up to eight search terms at once.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
Clicking a Google Trends quick comparison chip overlays the search interest of the two time periods being compared.
Omri Weisman · Day 2 · Google Trends
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To choose what to cover in depth, a community speaker's team used Google Trends to find what people in their market were interested in and then gave them that content.
Press and analysis 11
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Re-check regional demand for core product categories at least once a year, for example by comparing regions and seasons in Google Trends, because climate, housing or habits can shift what a market wants.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session G: Internationalisation
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Google Trends cannot show demand that reaches people through the Discover feed, so Discover visibility has to be judged from Search Console's Discover performance report rather than from Trends.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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To judge a launch or campaign in Google Trends, compare the brand's baseline search interest before and after the spike, not only the height of the spike, because a lasting baseline lift is the durable gain.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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Before treating a spike in an ambiguous keyword as demand for your topic, zoom in on the period in Google Trends and check the commonly searched queries, since another meaning of the word (as with 'ai' in 2012) may be driving it.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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A Google Trends line that falls over many years is not proof that a market is shrinking; compare terms against each other in the same chart, and take absolute numbers from keyword tools or Search Console impressions.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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Compare candidate keywords in Google Trends for the exact country or region where the page should rank, because the higher-interest wording can differ between markets that share a language.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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In Google Trends' commonly searched queries, rising queries point to emerging sub-topics worth a new page or section, while top queries show the established wording to reuse in titles and headings.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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Publish or refresh seasonal content a few weeks before the seasonal rise that Google Trends shows for each target country, so the pages are crawled and indexed before demand peaks.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 19 August 2026 that Google Trends had added explore maps and a regional breakdown that morning, as announced by Google on LinkedIn.
Search Engine Roundtable (19 August 2026) · Day 2 · Google Trends
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The regional search interest maps in Google Trends give a quick first check of demand by country or region before localising content for a new market.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Google Trends
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Track trust queries about your brand, such as '[brand] legit', '[brand] reviews' or '[brand] seriös', in Search Console and Google Trends for each market, and answer them on the site, for example with a trust or about page, instead of leaving the answer to third-party review sites.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Mastering the messy middle
Built on these claims 2
Kit items about Google Trends: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Also inglossary terms Search interest, Trending now
Connected things 12
Relations
- Has part Trending now structure, no claim needed
- Has part Trends Explore structure, no claim needed
- Measures Search interest
2 claims, 2 documented
The Google Trends Explore page, which Google called the heart of Trends, shows search interest in a query or topic and how it changes over time.
Google Trends shows search interest, not search volume: each point on its 0 to 100 scale represents the share of searches for the term out of all searches.
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Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.
- Search interest 19
- Trending now 6
- Search Console 3
- Trends Explore 3
- YouTube 3
- Discover 2
- AI Mode 1
- AI Overviews 1
- Gemini 1
Topics that feature it
- Reading Google Trends data 26
- Using Google Trends for SEO and content 23
- Google Trends tools and features 21
- Consumer decisions and the messy middle 3
- Localisation beyond translation 3
- Content for people 2
- How Search is evolving 2
- AI Mode usage and query trends 1
- Measuring success in the AI era 1
- Query understanding 1