treebytheriver

I'm not sure how new this is, but read about it on another forum.

"With Google Insights for search , you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames."

Here is a chart with .tv from 2004 to present..http://google.com/insights/search/#c...e=&clp=&cmpt=q


Insights seems to have a bit more breakdown data than Google Trends.

michaeldotcom

Thanks for sharing.

Google Insights is indeed a bit better than Google Trends.

Here is the comparison between .tv and the other main alternative extensions (.mobi, .info, .us, .biz)

http://www.google.com/insights/searc...e=&clp=&cmpt=q

treebytheriver

the only problem though is if you add .com and .net into the mix we have flatlined!

(or as we say in medicine, "asystole")

oh well hopefully time will honor us later

michaeldotcom

You can't compare .com and .tv at this point in time.

.com was introduced in 1985 and .tv in 1996, eleven years later.

Moreover, online video hasn't really become mainstream before 2006-2007 or so, which means that .tv hasn't been really relevant as the TLD of choice for rich media websites and online video until two years ago.

So you can't really compare .com (the biggest TLD in the world for 23 years) and .tv (only really relevant for 2 years or so in the world of multimedia and online video).

But if you compare the young .tv with a very established, old and respectable extension like .org (introduced in 1985 too), you'll notice that .tv has been really doing extremely well and will probably catch up on .org pretty soon. For example, in Mexico, .tv is already ahead of .org :

http://www.google.com/insights/searc...e=&clp=&cmpt=q

Anyway, even if .tv is the fastest growing extension of all time (according to Verisign themselves), there's so much more to the Internet than a battle between extensions.

The Internet should be about providing users with great useful content, and lots of .tv websites are doing a fantastic job there. That's the most interesting and most important part in my humble opinion.

treebytheriver

Very true, it's an unfair comparison at this point.

I have the patience of a 2 year old child sometimes!

Interesting the large percentage of spanish speaking countries that are searching for .tv
Bolivia, Panama, Mexico etc....

michaeldotcom

Well spotted...

The world's most popular .tv site (in terms of traffic) at this point is actually Spanish. It's TU.TV which has about 270,000 unique visitors per day !

Definitely does wonders to .tv awareness in Spanish-speaking countries.

Shane

http://google.com/insights/search/#c...e=&clp=&cmpt=q

such an interesting page!

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