Ever have a burning desire to know what people are searching for online when you’re out and about away from your home computer? If so, then there’s good news for you: a new iPhone app is available to help you stay on top of real-time Web search stats while you’re on the go.
SearchTrends is a free iPhone app from Little Red Bike Media that shows real-time search trends for the top search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and yes, even Twitter.
Check out this mini review of SearchTrends by Tech Crunch’s Daniel Brusilovsky, which I came across while browsing one of my favorite futurist Web sites, Kirzweilai.net (highly recommended for folks like me who like to stay on top of scientific and technological developments and trends.
Web writer can use this tool (and others like it) to uncover some of the most popular and trendy search terms for, say, news articles that we publish online. Also, it’s helpful to keep an eye on what keywords and keyword phrases people are searching for to get insight into the specific words people use to communicate what they’re looking for with search engines.
And in case you were wondering how Google stays on top of search terms, check out this display at their Mountain View headquarters. I’d like one of these for my office, please!
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