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April 12, 2011

Google Trends' "Hot Topics" is gone

I just checked out Google Trends and discovered that the "Hot Topics" section was gone. I never really found it that useful and didn't quite understand what made a topic "hot" vs. highly searched.

WebProNews reports that Google decided to "streamline" and unify the hot topics section into the "hot searches" section. Hope this doesn't make too many people hot and bothered.

For anyone not in the know, Google Trends is a site commonly used by bloggers and other online writers to gauge the popularity of different search terms, usually in the hopes of writing good "SEO friendly" copy.

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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 5:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Yea, I was wondering what happen to that. I never used it but then again I usually don't find the Trends all that interesting either. It's kinda sad what people think are important enough to spend time searching for...gossip about celebrities!

Posted by: Rayzor | April 13, 2011 1:39 PM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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