Google Trends - what did you do?
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So is it me or did Google make some crazy changes -
The "trends" are no longer anchored to appropriate articles etc...
Why do you think they would remove something so useful to us?
http://www.google.com/trends/ - check it out for yourself.
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Thanks Keri, I love ya guys!
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Google wrote a post about this at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/find-out-what-people-are-searching-for.html.
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Because they can
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