Google lets you quantify the searches made by the general public. The general public will I presume start searching google for more in depth articles when they become aware of a distortion within the financial markets.
Housing and sub-prime were the primary trend in google searches, which has now been surplanted by oil. The following chart displays the graphic. Quite how one might capitalise on this type of information is a point for conjecture…bottom of the housing, top in oil, or simply interesting but irrelevant?
June 18, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Ha! That’s pretty useful, thanks.
June 18, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Kat,
Have a play around with it.
Should you find anything interesting that you want to share, let me know.
I’m going to have a play with it myself.
jog on
duc
June 18, 2008 at 4:27 pm
http://www.phantasmix.com/index.php/2008/06/18/google-trends-vox-populi/
June 18, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Kat,
That, I take it is you.
The pressure is on now. You’re linked.
jog on
duc
June 18, 2008 at 4:38 pm
That’s me and I’ve been linked for awhile (via my nickname here) so I slowly adjusted to the pressure
Did you find anything interesting?
Here’s something else:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/mississippi_floodwaters_in_iow.html
Look at that corn…
June 18, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Kat,
I haven’t yet had time to other than a very quick scan, read your site, but I shall.
The Black cat, resembles very closely one of my cats, Mr Romulus, which made me smile.
jog on
duc
June 18, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Kat,
Those pictures are unreal.
jog on
duc
June 18, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Duc,
You’re lucky to have cats! post a picture some time.
That whole blog is unreal (big pictures have a huge impact).
For some reason though the floods are mentioned a lot, there are very few pictures of the situation and the damage at mainstream sites, like CNN.
June 18, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Kat,
Two Cats, Mr Romulus & Mr Remus.
Actually I have some quite good photo’s.
As to the flooding etc, scary.
jog on
duc
June 19, 2008 at 8:30 am
Duc,
if it’s not too difficult, please email me your cats, both close-ups and roaming vast lands of NZ.
(I’m always looking for fresh “faces” to put on my desktop
)
June 19, 2008 at 8:45 am
Kat,
Ok, let me see what I can do on that score, all photo’s are stored on the wife’s Mac…difficult technology…and she’s in Norway atm.
jog on
duc
June 19, 2008 at 10:07 am
That’s sounds like “too difficult”
… some day.