Google Realtime Timeline

 

Was doing a search for Detroit on Google Realtime and noticed that the timeline can be scrolled. This means you can see what the topic was that spiked activity at that time. Detroit is a rather common word and has frequent activity posted. It looks like there were two small spikes after 6 PM and another at what looks like 11 PM.

See image below. You can try the Detroit search here.

*Perhaps I should have done a screenshot of one of the spiking periods for analysis.

Realtime Search

 

Recently several real-time search services have come to my attention.

48ers.com and Google Realtime

You should check both of them out and add them to your toolbox.

Browser Home Screen - Top Sites

 

 

Above is a screen shot of the start page in Google Chrome. It's my understanding that the images are in order left to right, then down in order of most visits. In this case Twitter is the most visited site and Gist is the second most and so on. What is amazing is that Gist, a contact knowledge engine is up to number two. It's only been about six weeks since I started using Gist. The ranking algorithm in Chrome might be for most visits in the past 30 days.

Google Latitude – Traffic Jam I-94

Above is a image from Google Latitude. From the data you can see that the distance between geo blips is very short. The back up was about a mile as the freeway was completely closed west bound as the result of a car accident. Traveling one mile took about forty-five minutes.

Google receives geo blip data from users of Latitude. This data can pinpoint traffic congestion and perhaps one day areas that have a lot of traffic jams. Perhaps the causes of the traffic jams could be investigated and solutions implemented to improve traffic flows and driver safety.

What would be interesting is if Google called people (Google Voice users) that are in the traffic jam. They could provide insights about the cause (construction, accident etc). Perhaps first responders could be contacted with data live from the scene.

Kennedy Dominates Google News: “In The News” Section

Five of the ten items listed on Google News “In The News” section are related to Senator Kennedy or to a place that his family is associated with. See screen shot nearby.

 

GOOGLE MAPS CONTRACTOR IN MICHIGAN

 

A Google Maps contractor is working near Detroit, Michigan. At about 9:40am [7/3/2009] one of their vehicles was spotted on the 11 Mile road bridge above I-75.

 

Wondering if they are just adding in missing areas or updating areas that have changed.

SETH GODIN GOOGLE PRESENTATION

This is really good content from Seth Godin. 

• Watch
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• Learn

TAKEAWAY

The Purple Cow: Be Remarkable

What are your thoughts after viewing the video?

COMPETING ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES: ITUNES VS. RHAPSODY

Rather amusing to see an Apple Itunes RSS has an ad for Rhapsody service. 

GOOGLE SEARCH FROM CHINA = BLOG VISIT

See interesting blog visitor. See visit information below.

Domain Name		163data.com.cn ? (China)
IP Address		XXX.XXX.XXX.# (CHINANET-HN Hengyang node network)
ISP		Data Communication Division
Location		Continent : Asia Country : China (Facts) State/Region : Fujian City : Hunan Lat/Long : 25.9714, 119.6486 (Map) Distance : 7,492 miles

Referring URL		http://www.google.co...3 2008&start=20&sa=N
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		michigan automotive layoffs october 13 2008

GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR "BOARD OF BUSINESS COMPLAINCE" SCAM

Even people at Google are looking for "Board of Business Compliance" as a search. Had a visit to my blog as my post is generally in the top 5 results for that search. Data below is from Sitemeter data tracking.

Domain Name		google.com ? (Commercial)
IP Address		XX.XXX.XX.# (Google)
ISP		Google
Location		Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : California City : Mountain View Lat/Long : 37.4192, -122.0574 (Map) Distance : 2,083 miles
Language		English (U.S.) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Javascript		version 1.3
Monitor		Resolution : 1024 x 768 Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit		Sep 8 2008 4:40:54 pm
Last Page View		Sep 8 2008 4:40:54 pm
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.google.co... compliance&aq=f&oq=
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		board of business compliance
Visit Entry Page		http://david-damore....ness-compliance.html
Visit Exit Page		http://david-damore....ness-compliance.html
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-8:00
Visitor's Time		Sep 8 2008 1:40:54 pm

RE: GOOGLE CHROME

Getting more credit than I am due on this news.
Was wondering about when Google Chrome was going to be released. Tomorrow was not a specific enough of an answer for me.

Ran a Google Search for Google Chrome.

Came to this CNET site.

Answer: "The company is hosting a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday at 11 a.m. PDT."

There was the answer. Posted it to Twitter.

OLYMPICS: MEDAL COUNT

Interesting app from Google.

Google Results

BUSINESS WEEK: "Google Defies the Naysayers"
Story found here.