Google launches Website Trends because they can

Google has launched Website Trends, which allows you to “get insights into the traffic and geographic visitation patterns of your favorite websites.”

Allowing you to compare up to five websites at a time, Google Website Trends lets you narrow your trend search by location and time frame, and gives you “Also visited” and “Also searched for” lists. How else would I know that Australians visiting PornoTube are really just hopeless romantics who follow up their happy time by searching for their true love on rsvp.com.au?

Google explains that “Trends for Websites combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel data, and other third-party market research. The data is aggregated over millions of users, powered by computer algorithms, and doesn’t contain personally identifiable information. Additionally, Google Trends for Websites only shows results for sites that receive a significant amount of traffic, and enforces minimum thresholds for inclusion in the tool.” (Google via Techcrunch)