{"id":261379,"date":"2018-05-24T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=261379"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:11:53","slug":"google-trends-gets-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/261379-google-trends-gets-updated.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Trends gets updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Trends<\/a><\/strong> has been updated with new features and revamped navigation, Google announced in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/topics\/trends\/see-what-world-searching-updated-google-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__author-name\">Gavri Smith &#8211; a software engineer at Google Trends &#8211; said\u00a0many of the changes are based on feedback from users.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Google Trends has become a key part of journalistic storytelling, giving reporters everywhere an insight into search trends across the world,&#8221; said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The new design places more editorial data-based stories up front. It also gives users the ability to create their own stories using <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/yis\/2017\/GLOBAL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Year in Search<\/strong><\/a> data, or through the Trending searches and Explore pages.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A revamped Trending searches section, showing what is trending in search right now.<\/li>\n<li>A new section where you can see Google Trends data stories curated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinitiative.withgoogle.com\/training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>News Lab<\/strong><\/a> team on topics such as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/story\/US_cu_mqCQGFwBAABWOM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Administration<\/a><\/strong>.It also showcases\u00a0examples of Google <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/story\/US_cu_6fXtAFIBAABWdM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data visualisations<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by newsroom designers.<\/li>\n<li>New infographic types such as an intensity map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Google-Trends-Bitcoin-vs-Ethereum-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-261387\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Google-Trends-Bitcoin-vs-Ethereum-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Google Trends Bitcoin vs Ethereum cropped\" width=\"635\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Google-Trends-Bitcoin-vs-Ethereum-cropped.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Google-Trends-Bitcoin-vs-Ethereum-cropped-600x327.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/260235-google-wifi-lets-you-measure-how-individual-devices-are-performing.html\">Google Wifi lets you measure how individual devices are performing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Trends has been updated with new features and navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,24686],"class_list":["post-261379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-google-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261407,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261379\/revisions\/261407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}