Google unleashes real-time, worldwide trend reports for public use

One of the hottest new categories of software development revolves around virality prediction. That is, determining what stories and social media trends are about to go viral

On Wednesday, Google tossed its hat into the ring by expanding Google Trends and introducing real-time trend information — a tool that could change the way researchers and media channels deliver reports and stories

The real-time data tool gives users access to the roughly 100 billion monthly searches performed on Google. Available in 28 countries, the tool also merges information culled from Google News and YouTube to form trend reports Read more...