{"id":569,"date":"2008-01-13T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/13\/google-and-tv\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:48:48","slug":"google-and-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/13\/google-and-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 180px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/29\/35418618_dedd9a90c0_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/>I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/hottrends\" target=\"_blank\">Google Trends<\/a> yesterday.\u00a0 I was reading through my news reader while watching the football game.\u00a0 I clicked over to Google Trends and made a quick realization.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the searches people were doing right now, there were a lot of people watching what I was watching.\u00a0 The\u00a0Packers game was on.\u00a0 The top searches<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>green bay<\/li>\n<li>ryan grant<\/li>\n<li>brett favre<\/li>\n<li>lambeau field<\/li>\n<li>matt hasselbeck<\/li>\n<li>comanche moon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The names\u00a0were all of people playing in the game.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let that last one fool you.\u00a0 There were a lot of commercials advertising a new show called &#8220;Comanche Moon.&#8221;\u00a0 When the first game ended, the searches shifted to names from the second game.<\/p>\n<p>The networks must use this data to determine what people are watching and what they are thinking about.\u00a0 Better yet, what if a school could get a Google appliance that will show local search trends.\u00a0 Maybe there is something already out there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across Google Trends yesterday.\u00a0 I was reading through my news reader while watching the football game.\u00a0 I clicked over to Google Trends and made a quick realization. Based on the searches people were doing right now, there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/13\/google-and-tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,75],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","tag-google","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}