The news people are searching for right now
If you've been at Brighton SEO or you're after the websites from my chapter in Face The Future: Tools For A Modern Age, here they are.
Data on real-time search trends
- Yahoo Buzz UK (appears to have stopped updating)
- Yahoo Buzz USA
- AOL homepage (look for the green hot searches box)
- AOL hot search blog (ignore the slow-to-update picture box and look for the topic boxes further down)
- Google trends (rubbish data, ignore)
- Surchur
- Hitwise data centre
- Google News UK (look for the 'in the news' list)
- Google News USA (click the categories on the left to see the topics)

AOL hot searches
Google tools
Other news sites’ data
What's hot on Twitter
Adam Sherk has some other search trend tracking sources.
[...] Here are our video highlights from his presentation, along with a summary of the tools discussed (more information can also be found on Malcolm’s site here)…. [...]
[...] UPDATE: For more tools check out Malcolm Coles’ post on news and search trend tools. [...]