# Q for Google masters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-google-masters/413678>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-google-masters/413678 "2007-07-30T14:27:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-google-masters/413678/1 "2007-07-30T14:27:10Z")

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Is there a publicly accessible (free) way to look at Google’s search statistics? Same question applies to other free search engines.

For example if I want to see how frequently a search was done for a specific term how do I go about it. I’d like to use it as a tool to gauge interest in various stocks.

This might be considered a poor mans form of data mining. 😃

I’ve looked through the Google FAQ’s and not seen an answer to this.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-google-masters/413678/2 "2007-07-30T14:35:36Z")

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[http://www.google.com/trends](http://www.google.com/trends)

Wikipedia on [Google Trends](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Trends)

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**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-google-masters/413678/3 "2007-07-30T14:42:58Z")

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Wow Squink, thanks. That was quick!