Google Correlate Launched

Google just launched a new Google Labs product called Google Correlate, which looks at search trends, and attempts to apply them to real-world situations. The official description for Google Correlate is as follows:

Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which enables you to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series. The target can either be a real-world trend that you provide (e.g., a data set of event counts over time) or a query that you enter.

It uses search activity data to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series – the results of which can be viewed on the Google Correlate site (or downloaded as a CSV file).

“Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse,” Google says on an FAQ page. “With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a data series of activity (over time or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back a list of queries whose data series follows a similar pattern.”

Google says the data for Google Correlate is available from January 2003 to the present, with data being updated on a weekly basis.

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