Google-Heads in slow motion

Are the algorithms on Quaaludes?

Google Finance reports the license signings by Rambus Inc. with IBM and Spansion as "news". Posted nine hours ago in the news section is an April 28, 2008 article from ExtremeTech.

Google-Heads may blame backdating by ExtremeTech . . .

Backdating, forever associated with Rambus.

Rambus Inc. trends

This link to Google Trends measures the search and news reference volume of Rambus. Google notes:

Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results -- our search-volume graph -- plotted on a linear scale.

Located just beneath our search-volume graph is our news-reference-volume graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular term, it labels the graph and displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.

Google Trends is a product of Google Labs in early stages of development.

Hat tip to FinzToRite for the link.