Google trends, swine flu, wine and Britney Spears.

Google trends helps see what is popular. What people are searching for as well as news reports.

There are some stable searches like wine or Britney spears. Swine flu has passed them both in the past 30 days. Before that swine flu was so low Google report “not enough data”

Here is the graph of Google trends for past 30 days: Swine flu passes Britney Spears “swine flu, h5n1, bird flu, britney spears”
http://www.google.com/trends?q=swine+flu%2C+h5n1%2C+bird+flu%2C+britney+spears&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=2

I hope this shows the searches that WEB 2.0 can respond to. So much of Web 2.0 is “Post it and they will read it” but it is also good to know what people are looking for.