From Google’s beta-stage measurement analysis of topics, designed to accurately measure overall interest in a broader topic area, not just one specific search term.
Results are relative to previous interest, but Google doesn’t offer absolute search volumes.
Google uses the word “interest” the way Facebook uses the word “friend,” stripped of all depth and context. In a way, the easier and more accessible Google search has become over this time span, via the smartphone, the more search equals in-the-moment distraction/entertainment rather than anything that might be called genuine “interest.” Personally, I search for all kinds of things that I wouldn’t say I am “interested” in in any serious or significant way.
You’re right, I personally only search for things I’m not interested in. Otherwise, what’s the point?
That was pretty useless information.
What, no accordian?
That’s very interesting, Paul! I have been using this Google tool in Science Education for a while (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2441534), but it’s the first time I see it applied to musical instruments.
A point I’m not sure you are aware of is the “school topic” effect observed by Mohebbi et al., according to which some search terms that relate to school topics exhibit a temporal pattern that mirrors the school year in the United States, with “upticks in the Fall and Spring, sharp drops during Thanksgiving and Christmas and a long trough in the summer.”
I though it was for musical instruments. What’s “DJ Controller” doing in there? (I think they probably mean CD player)
Another Google fail — keyboards are used by everybody on everything.