Google Labs, glad to know you!

So now we can actually see into the future and play with tools that Google-people think is cool! I checked out "Google Trends" and found it to have awesome potential. When you put in a search term it brings up a graph that shows how many people have searched that term over time (and/or the news articles that have been written?). It was a little hard to tell what the increments of the axis were, but when I searched "adoption" it gave me a graph that looked like a heart monitor which covered the last several years. You could narrow it to various countries or even states, but it wasn't always clear what the data was that I was looking at. Still, it has definite nifty potential. Glad to make it's acquaintance!