No Google Trends as yet for the UK

Google will not be bringing its Hot Trends technology to the UK any time soon, the company has said.

A new feature that lets searchers see various statistics about the topic of their searches using trends information from Hot Trends will only be available in Japan and the US, a Google spokesman told Web User.

The innovation is a significant step towards Google's goal of real-time search facilities in its search engine. "Now, when you search Google.com and your query matches one of the top 100 fastest-rising search terms, we'll show you a graph at the bottom of the page, with more information — like how popular the query is, how fast it's rising over time, and other useful data," said Aaron Wise, associate product manager at Google.

As Web User reported in Issue 222, Google covets the real-time search capabilities of micro-blogging service Twitter, which provides members with a list of 'trending topics' to show them what is being widely discussed at that moment.

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