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Google is synonymous with search.
But Googling something doesn’t always mean starting your search query at google.com or entering the search phrase inside the address bar of your web browser, where Google is likely the default search option. Instead, certain queries are better handled through subsections of Google search, Google’s specialized tools for specialized searches.
Here’s a look at some of these tools. Plus, you might want to visit other resources outside of Google as part of your search mission.
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Google Trends: What’s being searched?
Most of us are curious about what’s on people’s minds and how they’re reacting to major events. You can visit trends.google.com and enter topic or keyword search terms of interest to you to get a sense of whether other folks searched for the same or similar topics, based on trillions of Google searches.
You can see which searches are trending or examine trends over time. And you can see how trends differ by region in the United States and around the world.
8 more Google search engines
Some additional specialized searches and some alternatives
• finance.google.com Alternatives: MSN Money, Yahoo Finance
• flights.google.com and travel.google.com Alternatives: Kayak, Momondo, Skyscanner
• maps.google.com Alternatives: Bing Maps, MapQuest, Rand McNally
• news.google.com Alternatives: Bing News, Yahoo News
• patents.google.com Alternative: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Public Search
• translate.google.com Alternatives: DeepL, iTranslate, Linguee
• video.google.com Alternatives: Bing Video
You have a couple of ways to examine the trends: Trending or rising searches are becoming popular quickly. Top-searched trends are the most-searched queries within a given time frame. You also can see what else people search that is related to your own search.
Pro tip: To gauge the relative popularity of your search topic, choose a common search term such as “weather” as your frame of reference, and then compare it against other search topics, which can change based on a chosen time period. For example, “football” is more popular than “baseball” if you compare trends over a 12-month stretch. But in the seven-day period leading up to Major League Baseball’s opening day, the national pastime trends higher.
Google alternative: Tap or click on the Trending tab on Twitter to see which topics are trending on the social media site.
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