The new Google trend software measure the traffic of websites, it’s a great way to get data and find traffic trends. But curiously Google has blocked most Google properties from the product. Do a search for Google.com
and you get nothing. Same for YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, etc. As Google Operating System pointed out, there are a few smaller properties that do show data, so it isn’t an across the board exclusion.
Google trends software can only measures the traffic of it’s customer (People using Google toolbar in their browsers), the data for Google’s sites would be skewed to 100% of all Internet users. It points out an inherent flaw in the product, and I’m not sure Google can easily solve it.
