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Recently, changes to Google Trends have been noticed, and today Google is finally announced a new version of the tool on the Official Google blog. The latest version includes a numeric metric dubbed ‘relative scaling’ and the ability to export trends data.

With relative scaling, the numbers will not provide exact data, but will give you ballpark of how certain terms are trending. Here’s how Heej Hwang of the Google Trends team explained relative scaling:

You’ll notice a number at the top of the graph as well as on the y-axis of the graph itself. These numbers don’t refer to exact search-volume figures. Instead, in the same way that a map might “scale” to a certain size, Google Trends scales the first term you’ve entered so that its average search volume is 1.00 in the chosen time period. So in the example above, 1.00 is the average search volume of vanilla ice cream from 2004 to present. We can then see a spike in mid-2006 which crosses the 3.00 line, indicating that search traffic is approximately 3 times the average for all years.

The export function offers two options: relative scaling or fixed scaling. Fixed scaling is data scaled to a specific timeline.

Previously, users noticed the removal of the ability to view trends hourly.

What do you think of the new Google Trends? Give us your thoughts in the comments.

UNC Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson was shot and killed early Wednesday morning.

Police are calling the murder a random act of violence. Carson’s roommates reported seeing her about 1:30 a.m. at their home the day of the shooting.

We’re observing a moment of silence in memory of the UNC student body president murdered yesterday. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Search engine news can wait.

Instead we’ll look at how search engines have eliminated the last vestiges of privacy, turned private lives into public figures, and created a global community that can celebrate and honor an ordinary life.

Chapel Hill police said the body of Eve Marie Carson was found lying at the intersection of Hillcrest Road and Hillcrest Circle about a mile from campus at approximately 5 a.m. No identifying information was found at the scene — no ID card, keys, purse, or wallet.

Investigators said officers found Eve Carson, a 22-year-old senior from Athens, Ga., after gunshots were reported in the area. Police spokesman Lt. Kevin Gunter told “The News & Observer” of Raleigh that Carson had been shot several times, at least once in the head.

Police found Carson’s vehicle, a blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia plates, after receiving a tip Thursday afternoon from a witness who spotted it near Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.

Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old Auburn University student from Marietta, Ga., was found wounded by a gunshot on a roadside Tuesday night, about five miles from the school. She died later at a local hospital.

Her car was found burning in a parking lot on campus.

No one knows whetther the co-ed murders are linked. In the past, the UNC shooting would have been a brief segment on national television news; a CNN pundits’ exchange, and the inevitable “48 Hours Mystery” segment.

ABC News, though, has received more than 200 comments online from readers.

USA Today ended its breaking news story with “Here’s a Facebook page from her successful campaign (for UNC student body president.) The USA today reporter linked to her inauguration speech video on YouTube, showing her welcoming students back to campus.

The photo of Eve Carson on USAToday.com? An “Image taken from YouTube.”

Other TV news sites featured slideshows: “Pictures Of Eve Carson.” Links helped searchers put together a better picture of her life:

Link: Video Of Carson’s Inauguration As UNC Student Body President
Link: Message From UNC Chancellor About Carson’s Death
Link: Eve Carson Memorial Page On Facebook

Today, with millions of people searching for information on Eve Carson, social search engines provide a way to celebrate a life. I found one photo on FlickR tagged “eve carson.” The photo shows “A bagpipe player promoting Eve Carson for student body president.”

The most moving photos online show Eve Carson working with impoverished families in Ecuador. Take the time to watch “The Gifts of Poverty,” on the Morehead Scholars and Alumni site. You can listen to Eve Carson sharing her experiences in her own voice.

The multimedia slide show was produced by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The credits: Nancy Donaldson, photography editing; Ray M. Jones, audio editing; Pailin Wedel, audio gathering; and Ashlie White, photography.

People all over the world will be touched by Eve Carson’s too-brief life as they search for answers about her death.

The author of Enders Game Orson Scott Card wrote in his sci-fi novel Speaker For The Dead that we would one day celebrate lives by speaking the truth about an ordinary life. To Speak for the dead, one must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding lives. One must speak not only for the dead, but for all humanity.

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It’s pretty obvious that this is all about the ad dollars. But they only get those dollars because we all go online to find news and information.

Eyetrack studies have shown us that many more people look at and click on organic search results than ads or sponsored links. So what would this merger mean in term of a search experience, organic results and news content?

comScore Media Metrix latest figures show Google now controls nearly 60% of the U.S. search market, and has been widening its lead, despite concerted efforts by both second-place Yahoo and third-place Microsoft. By combining, Microsoft and Yahoo would have close to 30% of the U.S. search market.

Speaking at the announcement early this morning Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at MS, said “Social platform will become a new entry point,” and called Yahoo pioneers in this field. “We can further accelerate the transformation to a more social web.”

Sounds promising. Perhaps Yahoo’s innovative thinking and social media smarts combined with Microsoft’s deep pockets might give us a better search experience in the long run.
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In terms of news search Yahoo is top of the list with over 30 million readers and Google is only at at #7 with just under 10 million. (Could this have been one factor in Google’s decision to feature news on their web SERP’s?)

How this merger will affect our organic search experience and the online news audience remains to be seen. Since they want the ad dollars they will have to draw the users and to do that they need to up their game and improve the organic search function.

Monthly unique visitors to newspaper Web sites averaged 62.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, setting a record according to a new report by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by more than 3.6, an increase of more than six percent over [...]

According to SEDO, internet domain name sales in the secondary market totaled GBP37 Million.
Sedo, the leading online market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has launched its annual report on the growth of the secondary Internet domain name market in 2007.

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The December 2007 figures from Nielsen//NetRatings show the US search market share for Google declined from the previous month.
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The report from Ad Age published recently, reveals some eye-popping facts and figures about search marketing.
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