Looking for a website

It is similar to www.alexa.com in that it gives graphical results, but instead of graphing website traffic, it measures the use of a given word or phrase on the web. It came up a while back in the Bush Administration as a way of watching the development of a talking point. I was directed to it once to see the growth of either “war on terror” or “stay the course”.

Anyone know of it?

Sounds like google trends:

http://www.google.com/trends

That is helpful, but it tracks searches rather than usage, so it’s not the one that I’m thinking of.

It does give me the kind of result I was expecting, though.