Google Trends
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Plans and prices
From Google Trends's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Google Trends | Free | Free Trends Explore tool; compare up to five topics or terms |
The facts
Each one read from Google Trends's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Google describes Trends as useful for journalists exploring story ideas and illustrating general interest in news stories.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Backlink analysis
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Charts and breakdowns
- Results include interest over time, interest by location, related topics, and related queries.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Competitor research
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Data limits
- Trends uses a random, unbiased sample and normalized indexes rather than exact search counts; low-volume terms can appear as zero.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data sources
- The Google Trends homepage presents trending topics detected across Google Search, Google News, and YouTube.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Excluded searches
- Trends filters repeated searches from the same user over a short period and queries with apostrophes or other special characters.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Explore topics
- Users can explore grouped topics or individual search terms and compare up to five at once.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Geography
- Search interest can be viewed by country, region, and city, and by metro area in some countries.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Keyword research
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Learning support
- Google provides beginner and advanced Google Trends lessons through the Google News Initiative.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Google Trends shows what people are searching for and lets users measure search interest by topic, place, and time.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Rank tracking
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Related searches
- Related queries can show Top and Rising terms, with “Breakout” indicating growth greater than 5000%.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search data
- Trends analyzes a sample of Google web searches to estimate searches over a selected period.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search operators
- Quotation marks, plus signs, and minus signs can refine searches for exact phrases, alternative words, or excluded words.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Site audit
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Time ranges
- Available ranges extend from the past hour back to 2004, with custom time ranges also available.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1998checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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