Following on from my last post about the use of new technology in youth work, you might be interested in using Google’s updated Trends feature.

Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages.

Working just like it’s standard search engine, Trends gives you visual data to see what’s hot and what’s not. For example, if you want to see how popular Facebook has become over MySpace in the UK during the past 12 months, just type in “Facebook, MySpace” and hit enter!

This could be a pretty useful and powerful tool for finding out what people are interested in. I love the way you can now filter by certain regions as well as country to see how popular Rugby has been in Wales over the last 4 years.

What uses can you think of for this Trend search?