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There's nothing real-time about it. The data (http://hawttrends.appspot.com/api/terms/) is pulled from Google Trends, but it's certainly not real-time, more like hourly updated.



I figured as since most people don't type in Title Case.


Actually you will be surprised by how many do type in Title Case. I have seen many non-techies do that. I have also noticed they do this in almost every movie and TV show, when someone is using a search engine.


That may be, for lack of a better word, muscle memory/reflex for some people. I found out last semester, when I wrote out lecture notes on an ipad that there are many words I literally forgot how to spell. I can type them, and I can write them with a pen, but writing with a stylus is different enough that it took several seconds of concentration before I could write it down. I wouldn't be surprised if there are words or phrases at I always capitalize.


Whether it's real time or not doesn't have anything to do with the letter case.


Real time implies natural searches as entered by users. These have been normalized.


Well, what stops them from displaying String.titleCase(fetchRealSearchQuery()) ? ;).


And it looks like everyone in India is searching for only a few terms continuously : http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&ncol...


Yet it's a pretty awesome way to get a snapshot of the trending topics of the day.




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