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Big Tech's Day of Reckoning: What the Meta and Google Verdicts Really Mean

In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
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How does Google Trends work


We know how trends work on Twitter it is now Google's turn to do the same and offer topics that are trending on their search engine. For those who want to know whats hot and happening on the world's largest search engine, comes Google Trends. With Google Trends you are able to view hot topics, Google insight for search, trends for specific websites and search for the latest hot topics.

With Google trends for websites all you need to do is to enter a websites address and you get a complete map on how many visitors the website gets and their geographic location. Which is really helpful if you want to know a websites popularity. 

You can also follow hot topics and hot searches and find out from where the queries originate and where visitors go after that search. Visiting Google Trends allows you know to know whats hot and happening as and when its taking place. So how does Google Trends work?

If you want to know a certain topics popularity or a certain events popularity on Google you need to simply Google the term for you to get all the info. Google Trends gives you all the insight you might want to know how a topic is trending on the Big G

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How does Google Trends work
Note: This post was written a long time ago and since then Google Trends has gone through a radical transformation. One notable change is that you cannot check website statistics like before. If you are unfamiliar with what that means - here is a simple explanation. If you wanted to see how many people visit a site on the web - Google Trends used to deliver such results. This is over now and Google Trends has to do with what is actually trending right now on the InterWebs.
When you access Google Trends there are three main categories.

1. Hot Searches

Clicking on this option will let you know what are the hottest searches on the internet right now.

2. Top Charts

Clicking on this option will show you web-searches organized as charts. You can see everything organized under headings like Actors, Animals and Books etc. Clicking on any of these charts will show you what's trending under these topics. This is relatively new and an amazing addition to Google Trends.

3. Explore

Here you can check out search terms - there are some by default, but you can add your own. So you can check out a particular search term, and how it's been trending on the internet. When it started becoming popular and how many people are searching for it. A whole lot of information is being made available.

 
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