{"id":224,"date":"2006-05-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2006-05-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T17:00:00","slug":"google-trending-the-housing-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/google-trending-the-housing-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Trending The Housing Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.noul li{background: none; padding: 0;}<\/style>\n<p>Google just released an interesting new feature yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\" title=\"Google Trends\">Google Trends<\/a>.  One of the interesting features of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\" title=\"Google Trends\">Google Trends<\/a> is that it gives you a list of the top ten cities that have searched the most for whatever terms you put in. Obviously, I decided to try it out with the search term &quot;housing bubble.&quot; Here is the resulting graph:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 410px; text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/housing_bubble_search_trend.jpg\" title=\"Google Trends: housing bubble\" rel=\"lightbox[224]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/400\/housing_bubble_search_trend.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 5px;\" title=\"Google Trends: housing bubble\" height=\"179\" width=\"400\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/housing_bubble_search_trend.jpg\" title=\"Google Trends: housing bubble\" rel=\"lightbox[224]\">Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not surprisingly, interest in a housing bubble seems to have peaked late summer of last year, around the same time that the housing bubble was getting the most news coverage. Also not surprisingly, Seattle doesn&#8217;t appear in the top ten list of cities searching for &quot;housing bubble&quot; online. Here&#8217;s the top ten list, as of today:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"noul\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Santa+Clara,+CA\" title=\"Santa Clara, CA\">Santa Clara, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Pleasanton,+CA\" title=\"Pleasanton, CA\"> Pleasanton, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=San+Jose,+CA\" title=\"San Jose, CA\">San Jose, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Rancho+Santa+Margarita,+CA\" title=\"Rancho Santa Margarita, CA\"> Rancho Santa Margarita, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=San+Diego,+CA\" title=\"San Diego, CA\">San Diego, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=San+Francisco,+CA\" title=\"San Francisco, CA\"> San Francisco, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Irvine,+CA\" title=\"Irvine, CA\">Irvine, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Reston,+VA\" title=\"Reston, VA\">Reston, VA <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Washington,+DC\" title=\"Washington, DC\">Washington, DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Sacramento,+CA\" title=\"Sacramento, CA\">Sacramento, CA <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Actually that&#8217;s more like a top five list. San Francisco (1, 2, 3, 6), Los Angeles (4, 7), San Diego (5), Washington, DC (8, 9), and Sacramento (10). Apparently people in the greater San Francisco area are more worried about a housing bubble than anyone else in the country\u2014by a pretty wide margin\u2014and Californians in general are the by far the most worried about their precious bubble being burst.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Google Trends only provides the top 10 so we don&#8217;t have any way of knowing how far down the list Seattle would have come in. I suspect it would have been pretty low. I get the general impression that the thought of a housing bubble hasn&#8217;t even crossed the minds of most people in our area.<\/p>\n<p>In other Google-related news, does anyone else find it strange that this blog comes in as the #1 result for the search &quot;Seattle bubble&quot; on <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=Seattle+bubble\" title=\"MSN Search: Seattle bubble\">MSN Search<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Seattle+bubble\" title=\"Yahoo Search: Seattle bubble\"> Yahoo Search<\/a>, but isn&#8217;t even in the <i>top 100<\/i> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Seattle+bubble&amp;num=100\" title=\"Google Search: Seattle bubble\">Google<\/a>?  What&#8217;s with that?  I don&#8217;t know how much good it will do, but Google does provide a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/quality_form?hl=en&amp;q=Seattle+bubble\" title=\"Google Quality Feedback: Seattle bubble\">quality feedback form<\/a> that you can complain on if like me, you think that&#8217;s somewhat bogus.<\/p>\n<p> (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=housing+bubble\" title=\"Google Trends: housing bubble\">Google<\/a>, 05.10.2006<\/i>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; padding: 2px; font-size: 12px; width: 150px; text-align: center; border: 1px dashed #4386ce; background-color: #D5E2F1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=paypal%40timandjeni.com&#038;no_note=1&#038;tax=0&#038;currency_code=USD&#038;lc=US&#038;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Tip Jar\">Seattle Bubble Tip Jar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just released an interesting new feature yesterday: Google Trends. One of the interesting features of Google Trends is that it gives you a list of the top ten cities that have searched the most for whatever terms you put in. 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