Google Trends

New World has been released for just a week. It is way, way too early to start forecasting any sort of trends from this. Like, that’s ever stopped me before. I repeat this whenever I talk about Google Trends. Google Trends is based solely on what people are searching for, and does not correlate with the actual popularity of the game, the number of players, or anything. It’s just the number of searches on a specific topic in a certain amount of time. I would assume that search terms are connected to a specific topic by the searcher clicking on a relevant link in the search results, but that’s just a guess. That said… ...

I’m not going to blast this post anywhere, but if someone was interested in what a full run of the Google Trendifier looks like with about 160 games on the list. I’m still counting it toward my Blaugust quota, though. Some of the games on previous lists aren’t on this one, as I decided to eliminate those that Google Trends Suggestions didn’t label as an Online game or Video game, just to try and get the most fair comparisons possible. ...

I was playing around with Google Trends last week, trying to see how a few MMOs compared to each on the ‘Trends. It was fun and all, but I missed a lot of games and I just thought it would be so much better if I could just compare EVERY MMO, past and present, automatically! Google Trends just catalogs the searches people would do for a game, but I figured that had to have at least a loose correlation to popularity, right? ...