This google site allows you to track the “trends” of certain search topics.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=cecil%2C+adams%2C+straight%2C+dope&ctab=0&geo=US&date=all
Pretty cool. LIke googlefight, but better.
I thought it was cool, but I’m not really sure I trust the data. For example, I fed it Mythbusters, and (if I’m reading it right), it seems that Norway and Australia are each interested in the show more than Canada and the U.S. combined. :dubious:
Google Labs shows off all the cool stuff Google has.
My favourite thing (not that I get the chance to use it much) is Google Sets. Give it a few programming language names, a few colours, some names of action figures, etc., and it’ll give you a big list of the same. I find it useful for when you can remember everything about something but that something itself. 
I gave Google Sets the names of a few Magic: The Gathering cards, and it blanked out entirely. That should have been an EASY one, given that Magic cards are a precise and well defined finite set.
Wow. Before reading this post, I went and did exactly the same thing.
It didn’t work for me, either.
I like the public option of the Notebooks feature. Very cool to see what others are snipping. Not to mention said snipping in itself.
Thanks for the Labs link!
Neat. I put “sex” into Google trends, and the top city was Cairo. Horny bastards.
It’s normalized to the total number of search in each country. That is, it’s expressed as a percentage of all searches coming from that country. Mythbusters is showing in Norway, and t’s not inconceivable that a larger percentage of Norwegians are interested in Mythbusters than Americans.
By the way, it looks like if you type several keywords it’s treated as an AND (like a regular google search), but if you separate them with commas, it shows the trends for each set. Example: George Bush, John Kerry.
I knew that. 'Cause I RTFM. :smack: :o
Unmentioned on the Labs page is the Google Zeitgeist, which is very interesting. I thought they only had a year-end thing, but it seems they update it monthly and weekly too.
The top three cities in searches for “Satan” are all in Turkey.
“Passion of the Christ” seems to be way popular in the Phillippines.
Hmmm…