Experience the power of search engine data with Trajaan – the leading enterprise solution for search insights.
With features like query discovery, segmentation, trend detection, and integrated business intelligence, Trajaan takes search listening to the next level. Say goodbye to limitations of free platforms like Google Trends and get valuable insights on emerging needs, brand awareness, and product mix and merchandising – all with the help of Trajaan.
And with our dedicated team of professionals, you’ll never have to search alone. See the big picture, understand fast-moving consumer expectations, and be prepared for your next strategic move with Trajaan.
Google Trends: The Pioneer in Search Listening.
On the 5th of August, 2008, Google Insights for Search was launched – as an advanced service to monitor search data trends. On the 27th of September, 2012, Google rebranded Google Insights for Search as Google Trends.
Google Trends is a website that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages. The website uses graphs to compare the search volume of different queries over time. Google Trends provides access to a large unfiltered sample of actual search requests made to Google.
Google Trends enables users to get the interest for a particular topic from around the globe or down to city-scale geography, in a given country.
A great place to start listening to online searchers
Google Trends is easily accessible and freely available. The data Google is collecting is valuable because of its continuity and global data collection. There is no such thing as a survey providing fresh data each week, across all geographical borders.
Because Google Search is the most used search engine in the world, Google Trends can represent a good percentage of all people with free access to the Internet.
But a lack of accuracy in search volume estimation.
Long story short: Google Trends doesn’t exactly tell you how many searches occurred for your topic, but it does give you a nice proxy.
The main issue with Google Trends is the search data normalization. Search volumes are normalized to the time and location of a query, with the following process:
- Each data point is divided by the total searches of the geography and time range it represents to compare relative popularity. Otherwise, places with the most search volume would always be ranked highest.
- The resulting numbers are then scaled on a range of 0 to 100 based on a topic’s proportion to all searches on all topics.
- Different regions that show the same search interest for a term don’t always have the same total search volumes.
A lack of depth to detect weak signals.
Google Trends does not provide much insight for all queries exceeding 5 terms – which are commonly considered as weak signals.
Of course, these searches are rather rare. Yet it is still a limitation in the process, especially considering all the people typing for specific questions:
- Best French restaurant in Manhattan
- Is aloe vera good for acne?
No SEO competitive benchmark
Google Trends does not offer any actionable insights into SEO performance and should not be used for online SEO analysis. It is simply a tool which gives an indication of the popularity of certain topics and keywords on the web over a given time frame, and should not be used to measure success or failure of SEO campaigns.
Pros
- Free
- Simple to use
- Useful to test if a query is a strong signal in multiple countries
Cons
- No exact search volume (index from 0 to 100)
- Comparison is limited to 5 different search terms
- No weak signal analysis
- No built-in framework for market research or SEO performance
Trajaan: The Leading Enterprise Solution For Search Insights
Trajaan was launched in 2021 to help global brands & consultancies extract strategic value from search engine data. Based on a clear vision: fast-moving consumer expectations can be monitored from large-scale search data analyses.
Trajaan has been designed to tackle three major issues in the retail and consumer goods industries:
- Detect emerging needs & categories
- Monitor brand awareness across dozens of countries and local regions
- Find out the perfect product mix & merchandising to increase conversions
With Trajaan, you can blend all the available search engines data sources such as Amazon, Baidu, or Bing (the second search engine in North America – and even your 1st-party data sources.
Monitor thousands of queries.
You can ask Trajaan if there is a significant search volume for any search query you have in mind.
Then our tool provides you with other similar queries driving even more interest. Our algorithms guarantee the identification of more than 95% of the volume of search queries associated with a market. Trends on 5 keywords are good. Over 5000 is better!
A great feature to start your research with hundreds of significant queries – so that you can map everything consumers are searching for about your market.
Get all your queries segmented.
Tracking hundreds or thousands of search queries is great to make sure you get a big picture of your market. But it can lead to long-lasting analyses, if you consider each query one by one.
The best strategy is to group similar queries – so that you can get analyses for each group of queries. That process is called segmentation, where you create meaningful groups of queries you want to monitor.
Think macro, not micro!
Deduplicate similar data.
Trajaan contains specific algorithms to identify duplicate queries – before. you get access to your analytics dashboard:
- Typos: queries that are too similar, like typos or singular/plural
- Volume clusters: queries whose search volume is considered as identical by Google or Amazon, as search intent is allegedly the same (e.g. PSG & Paris Saint-Germain)
- Volume modified: queries whose volume has been modified over time by Google – thus providing “false positives” in trend detection or alerting
Trend detection & integrated business intelligence.
With Trajaan, you just get automated reports on-demand, in real-time.
Our platform provides simple access to a large set of charts and data tables co-constructed with leading references in the strategy consulting world.
Our analytics framework is to make trend detection easier, with a built-in growth matrix, rankings of geolocations with higher affinity for your brand and products – or with seasonality effect analysis.
Consider our platform as a cockpit to monitor in real-time fast-moving consumer expectations. Take a look, see from above & be prepared for your next strategic move.
Pro services
You will never search alone! Everyone at Trajaan is here to help you understand how to take advantage of search engine data.
You don’t have the time to translate a market into search queries and segment the query plan? No problem, our team is there to set up new platforms & send your detailed reports about consumers’ wants.
Pros
- Multisource (Google, Amazon, 1st-party data…)
- Query discovery
- Query segmentation
- AI for data quality
- Built-in KPIs
- Alerting scripts
- Pro Services
Cons
- More complex: onboarding session is required
- Easy to get lost in the ocean of data facts
- Not free-of-charge 😉
