So I get on Google Trends to see what's popular today. The results were quite unsurprising.
What's popular today? The same things that are always popular. That's right. Sports, celebrities, and TV. How does Google Trends tell us what's popular anyway? The answer to that is simple: It reads a lot. Google knows what's popular because it's a very widely used search engine and remembers what it searches for. Also it checks social networking sites, like Twitter, to see what is currently being mentioned.
Google Trends is actually pretty intelligent. The results are updated constantly, they change automatically when the trends change. Which in turn keeps us, the consumers, updated as to what's popular. It's really pretty convenient. Why does it matter what's popular, though? Why do we need to be updated constantly? I don't understand why we can't just figure out what's popular on our own instead of being told by Google. But I still think it's pretty cool that Google can keep track of all this information.