American Idol Finale Video in Google Hot Trends: where are the videos linked?
Google Trends has launched its new daily service, called Hot Trends, where the top 100 search queries can be found (continually updated). As of May 24, we can see that the top ten is undoubtedly ruled by American Idol, which is an annual American televised singing competition, which began its first season on June 11, 2002. 
As Wikipedia adds, the program seeks to discover the best young singer in the country, but in fact, as Simon Cowell openly declared “the underlying primary purpose of the Idol franchise (including American Idol) was for 19 Entertainment (the parent corporation that produces the Idol TV shows) to discover new singing talent that can be signed to recording agreements that the corporation maintains with a major record company (Sony/BMG) and benefit from the record sales of contestants and winners who are exposed to the worldwide marketplace through the TV shows.
Out of the ten top search queries 3 our sraightforwardly for American Idol (ranks 1,2 and 5), and the fifth shows the quest for video recordings of the event. The Hot Trends are rated for their hotness with metaphors of warmth like: volcanic, on fire, medium, mild
No. 1 “american idol winner” Hotness: Volcanic
Related searches:
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No. 2 “who won american idol” Hotness: Volcanic
Related searches:
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No. 5 “american idol finale video” Hotness: On Fire
Related searches:
american idol results video, american idol finale results video, video of american idol finale, american idol final video, jordin sparks wins video
Neddless to say, search queries containing the term ‘video’ are absolutely in high demand. So in light of this, I simply do not understand why Google does not send its users to YouTube pages (or Google video pages), especially if the hot trend literally shouts for video content. Admittedly, they are trying to focus on the social network element by sending users to the Google Groups page through the “Discuss with others” link. But we all know that discussion can take place on YouTube pages too (even though the comment threads are not so cleverly organized and searchable as in Google groups, are they?) Also, in a community stlye, in addition to the mainstream media we get the blog search results on the left that treat with the current hot trends.
The complete list of the top ten is as follows (mind you only for May 24, and exclusively the US results).
Hot Trends (USA)
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Hot Trends analysed from a business perspective is on Search Engine Land in two posts.