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trends.google.com - 2/15/2009

Google Trends: iphone, Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android

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Google Trends provides insights into broad search patterns. Please keep in mind that several approximations are used when computing these results.

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iPhone Still Winning Mindshare War (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — The Palm Pre, Blackberry Storm/Bold, and Google G1 hype have made the smartphone market so noisy that everyone's forgotten about the iPhone (AAPL), right? Nope. Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt looks at the smartphone mindshare war through the window of Google Trends.  No question about who has been--and still is--winning this one: Think of the jagged light blue line in the fever chart [above] as the bubble of hype that keeps Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone floating above of its competitors. It’s a snapshot of a Google Trends chart comparing the number of times the word  “iPhone” appears in a Google search request with the words ...

Tracking the iPhone’s bubble of hype
MacBytes.com — Google trends iPhone snapshot (2) Think of the jagged light blue line in the fever chart at right as the bubble of hype that keeps Apple’s ( AAPL ) iPhone floating above of its competitors. What you’re looking at is a snapshot of a Google Trends chart comparing the number of times the word  “iPhone” appears in a Google search request with the words “Palm” ( PALM ), Research in Motion’s ( RIMM ) “BlackBerry,” Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) “Windows Mobile” and Google’s ( GOOG ) “Android.” The full chart — going back to 2004 — and the color key are pasted below the fold. Or you can click here to recreate the chart on your Web browser. Google Trends is a powerful tool. It has been ...