The legacy Google Trends Explore page is still available but will be retired: Google is adding its features to the new Explore page until everyone can move to the new one (no date was given).
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Trends Explore
The Google Trends page for comparing search terms and topics over time, by region and with related queries.
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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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Google’s documentation 0
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Said at the event 13
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Not in docs 5
A Google Trends Explore chart presented on stage put worldwide search interest in Gemini above ChatGPT for the first time ever in September 2025, during a sharp surge for Gemini.
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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.
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Google said colour maps of the geographic breakdown of search interest (regions within a country, or countries worldwide) had launched in the new Google Trends Explore page about a month before the October 2026 talk.
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The category filter of the legacy Google Trends Explore page has been reintroduced in the new Explore page.
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Consistent with docs 3
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.
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The 'Commonly searched queries' section of the new Google Trends Explore page, called related queries in the legacy Explore page, lists queries that people typed in the same search sessions as the entered term.
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Quick comparisons, a recent Google Trends Explore page feature, show year-over-year, month-over-month and week-over-week comparisons as chips when a single search term or topic is entered.
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Confirmed by docs 5
Google Trends has two flagship experiences: the Explore page and Trending now.
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Google launched a brand-new Google Trends Explore page at the beginning of 2026.
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For keyword selection, Google recommended entering candidate keywords on the Google Trends Explore page, setting the relevant country, region and time frame, and seeing which terms have the higher search interest.
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For scheduling, Google recommended checking on the Google Trends Explore page whether the topics relevant to your domain show seasonality; many topics do, though not all.
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The new Google Trends Explore page has a 'Suggest search terms' button that opens an optional Gemini-based side panel.
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Press and analysis 1
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 2 September 2026 that Google had announced category filters for the new Google Trends Explore page, usable with or without a query.
Search Engine Roundtable (2 September 2026) · Day 2 · Google Trends
Connected things 5
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Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.