Searching for "Poker" Around the World: Market Insights with Google Trends Searching for "Poker" Around the World: Market Insights with Google Trends
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Key Takeaways
  • The Google Trends website displays information on the relative volume of searches for specific terms. The search term “online poker” has been in decline since its peak in January 2010.
  • Inputting different translations of poker results in graphs which show that the decline has affected different markets in different ways. Monitoring the popularity of poker as a search term doesn’t result in accurate market forecasts, but can give early earning of which way a market is going.
  • A look at markets around the world, translating and transliterating poker as a search term produces some surprising results.

The Google Trends website displays information on the relative volume of searches for specific terms. The search term “online poker” has been in decline since its peak in January 2010.

Inputting different translations of poker results in graphs which show that the decline has affected different markets in different ways. Monitoring the popularity of poker as a search term doesn’t result in accurate market forecasts, but can give early earning of which way a market is going.

A look at markets around the world, translating and transliterating “poker” as a search term, produces some surprising results.