A new Google tool will help netizens to keep up with top news stories and social media trends. An expanded Google Trends will help Internet researchers and online media sources to share real-time world-wide news stories and reports just before they go viral.
Google announced the launch of the online data tool on Wednesday. Its News Lab posted a video that showed the importance of data-based news reporting, by featuring mass media journalists from sources such as The New York Times and ESPN.
The revamped Google Trends homepage is now available in 28 nations, according to Tech Crunch. More countries will be added in coming months.
Google users who visit the search page of the trends tool can now receive data with more "breadth and coverage," which will produce more precise web searches. Data mining is done via Google News and YouTube.
The tech giant's trending news research is very accurate. For example, it showed spikes in web searches and social networking trends for NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala at 11:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, near the time he won the prestigious award.
Google Trends' new tool revealed that the top query during that time was ironically about Iguodala's wife, according to Mashable. Stephen Curry, the 2015 regular season MVP, finished a distant second. Lebron James was ranked third.
The search engine giant stated that the upgrades to Google Trends were greatly based on feedback from web surfers hunting for trending topics. That included journalists.
The new real-time component will shine a light on the data analysis tool that has actually existed for several years, now that it has a broader scope and greater precision. Google Trends was launched in 2006.