Google Labs

Oh, this was fun! I struck out comparing organic gardening and conventional gardening; Patricia Wells and Lidia Bastianich; dendrobium and cymbidium orchids. All of these searches had such low volume of traffic there wasn't a graph available to track them. I finally found a good match with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali. Lots of articles and traffic about both of them. I really liked the regions part of the graph where it showed that Batali had the most trend history in the US, particularly New York city. I liked the way I could see the search volume and the news reference volume and explore the articles that were highlighted with letters. A very useful tool for comparisons but not much use if your search terms don't register enough traffic for a graph.