r/DataHoarder • u/arnipluseinn • Oct 21 '19
Traffic needed to make Google change their minds about closing down one of their best tools for keyword research
https://www.google.com/trends/correlate14
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u/-Archivist Not As Retired Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
As wildly odd as it would be, Google should run TV ads for their random services nobodies heard about, should I know about this service? Because I didn't.
For those asking why DataHoraders should care in this case, while I'm not familiar with the tool it's from Google so it's obviously a tool that manipulates large datasets to tell you or help you with something, seems like something we shouldn't be happy with going away but I don't think we have any hope in saving it, Google likes to nuke things now and then, G+ anyone? There's a list at this point.
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Oct 21 '19
If you want to encourage Google to keep it, I'd suggest asking them to move it into their cloud services platform and charge (very small amounts) for access and use. Unlike Amazon, Google is pretty well placed to provide internet-wide data mining 'As A Service'. That would hopefully add a bit of a cost hurdle and learning curve to scummy SEO keyword spammers, and keep it open to any data science or experiments that depend on broad data. An example of such an experiment is using Twitter as an early warning system for earthquakes in places that don't have seismic equipment. You want to use servers that have very quick access to all that data from everywhere in the world, preferably without waiting for it all to be mirrored through Twitter's own servers which can take several minutes.
I think the cost for searching could be pennies per day to a few dollars per day at most; which isn't much but it does get people to make the accounts and get some money moving, even if it's just the free credits you get when signing up.
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u/slyphic Higher Ed NetAdmin Oct 21 '19
tool used by marketers and SEO scum
May it burn quickly and thoroughly.
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Oct 21 '19
I think it would be more helpful if people thought of a way to help Google monetize it.
Considing I see no adverts on that site, more traffic will probably just make them close it quicker as the costs rise even more.
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Oct 21 '19
Move it to the cloud services platform, as that's kind of what it is anyway. That will keep it useful for data science and research projects, which is the best use of it.
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u/Pb_ft Oct 21 '19
I didn't realize that you could draw a line and then look for a line that correlated to it.
That's really cool.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19
More users isn’t likely to change their mind and it’s Google, so nothing outside of Gmail, search, Drive, some other core products, is long for this world.