Technorati recently released cool charty goodness for any keyword search, and what’s more you can post the graphs right into your blog. For example, picking some words completely at random, here’s the last three months of activity surrounding the phrase ‘Richard Rutter‘:
And for the record, here’s a static version of that chart as it appeared on the day of this post. It shows a sudden spike in ‘fame’ during December as Web Typography was released.
Some other interesting charts of the moment might include:
Any more for any more?
Update. I’ve just found (via Paul) egoSurf which calculates egoPoints based on how often your name links back to your website in search engine results. I found my name in their top fifty and my bonce got too big for my hat. Then Clearleft and Clagnut were given demi-god status and my head exploded.
Faruk Ates wrote:
KuraFire – I believe the spike is thanks to FACE being mentioned by Dave Shea and Mike Davidson on just about the same day ;-)
(btw, your Preview page shows a red “We have a problem…” at all times, is that entirely planned?)
Nick Cowie wrote:
I just used egoSurf, what scared me was I out scored you (just). Me thinks it has some random element involved plus it helps if you comment is all the blogs you read ;-)
One ego stroked, back to the serious stuff, thank you.