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If you are using Chrome and love the feature where typing in few characters at the address bar completes the URL, have a look at  chrome://predictors/  (Type it in address bar). Lists all the combinations that have been used and their frequency. Now you know why typing in f lists facebook.com and not ftv.com  One more interesting URL for chrome users:  chrome://omnibox/ It lists out how your omnibox (address bar in other browsers) list out contents in the drop down as you type. For e.g., just type india and press submit. It will list out options which it will show in the drop down when you actually type it out in omnibox. And it also shows category where it was fetched from (history/bookmarks/google search)

Original post @ 7/10/2008 12:35:00 PM Happened to come across couple of posts that talked about Google Trends and how they can be utilized to check the popularity of few things: On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying Bollywood Actresses: Who's Google Hot and Who's Google Not? Interesting to see how the popularity of actresses on the web really indicates the career graph... movie hits.. some big gossips about them.... some changes in their personal life has really kicked a new interest in finding about their profile :) I did the same with Intuit and surprisingly found Canada providing more web traffic to intuit searches than US. Popularity seems to have decreased but time to get back to the old ways :).. Also happy to find India being a great traffic provider :-) http://www.google.com/trends?q=Intuit Quicken , QuickBooks , TurboTax are interesting to check too... Check all together in this link !