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What is Google Trends?

Google Trends [trends.google.com] is a website where you can see statistics of searches performed on Google, in particular trends of certain terms being searched more or less with the passage of time in the search engine.

A Google Trends page showing a graph comparing the terms Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. At the start of the graphic, Facebook had the highest volume of search, but at the end it became second place, Youtube first. TikTok grew from almost nothing in the last five years and is now almost above Twitter. Instagram kept a stable third place. The final positions are: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
A screenshot of Google Trends, showing trends of searches for names of social media websites from 2019 to 2024. Social media included: Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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It's possible to embed a graph from Google Trends in an article.

Written by Noel Santos.

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I'm a self-taught Brazilian programmer graduated in IT from a FATEC. In a world of increasingly complex and essential computers, I decided to use my technical expertise in hardware, desktop applications, and web technologies to create an informative resource to make PC's easier to understand.
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