[Question] Is there a website for tracking fads?

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9wQqATGyCLS5PRJwN
title

[Question] Is there a website for tracking fads?
authors

romeostevensit
date_published

2019-12-06T04:48
score

8
omega_karma
votes

3
tags
source

lesswrong

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9wQqATGyCLS5PRJwN/is-there-a-website-for-tracking-fads

Also, clever ways to use google trends etc?

Comment

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P4fJnzYusL6cDn33i
authors

liam_hinzman
score

9
omega_karma
votes

3
date_published

2020-05-22T02:00

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9wQqATGyCLS5PRJwN/is-there-a-website-for-tracking-fads?commentId=P4fJnzYusL6cDn33i

Treendly and Exploding Topics both show terms that are rapidly increasing in Google search volume.

A week ago I was curious to see if many people were cheating on the AP exams—they’re online for the first time due to COVID-19. I searched "derivative" on Google Trends and saw that a ton of people were probably cheating due to a spike in search volume exactly when the AP calculus exam started (related searches also indicated what the exam question was).

Comment

id

4K4bCKDKgv7JYvRTF
authors

romeostevensit
score

2
omega_karma
votes

1
date_published

2020-05-22T04:33

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9wQqATGyCLS5PRJwN/is-there-a-website-for-tracking-fads?commentId=4K4bCKDKgv7JYvRTF

These are pretty great!