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The Trouble w/Google Trends is...

by tecHead
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...that, although the information posted there can be invaluable, I've found it to be rather hard to do anything with outside of looking at it and saying, "OH! Cool!"

Even with pulling the RSS/Atom feed they provide; its all jumbled up into a listing and you can't do anything with that data except pull the feed and look at it and say, "OH! Cool!"

If only there were a way to separate those listed items out so I could at least deal with 'em one at a time; like pull the feed and parse out ONE item at a time... or pick and choose which ones I wanted to play with.

dammit!... oh, wait.. Yahoo Pipes!

Here's what I created...
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.in...1a7290d5b7977c

Here's the RSS feed to what I created...
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.ru...7c&_render=rss

Here's a link to it all explained out...
http://jalaj.net/2008/03/28/using-ya...nds-tokenizer/

Have fun with it; I know I will

HTH
PLP,
tecHead

P.S.: for those that know how to play with RSS feeds enough to build content sites out of 'em, this is HOT; and you should know why. Parse the search phrases out and use them to factor in some other dynamic data pulling to monetize the trends and you have a cash cow with perpetual traffic!

P.P.S.: once I've done it, I'll give the WAR room access.
#trends #trouble #w or google
  • Profile picture of the author BigDaddys101
    Great work man, I am going to play with this a bit. I am glad you went with Yahoo Pipes and not Google Gadgets. I have been running into more and more issues with Gadgets lately.
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    • Profile picture of the author tecHead
      Originally Posted by BigDaddys101 View Post

      Great work man, I am going to play with this a bit. I am glad you went with Yahoo Pipes and not Google Gadgets. I have been running into more and more issues with Gadgets lately.
      Glad somebody else got excited about it, besides me. Was gettin' kinda lonely, lol.

      I look at enough code throughout my day; I just rolled my eyes at Gadgets. I love Pipes 'cause of the GUI; it just takes some getting used to, is all.

      Have fun!
      PLP
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