Google declare Wednesday saw the launch of a revamped Explore Trends page, now featuring Gemini-powered capabilities that automatically identify and compare trends related to your searches. The update is rolling out to desktop starting today.
The Explore Trends page has long been a useful tool for content creators, journalists, and researchers, to easily analyze search interest for any topic over time, across regions, and by category. The new Gemini experience simplifies much of the manual work involved in exploring trending topics, reduces research time, and opens up connections that users can make.
The redesigned Explore page now has a side panel that automatically identifies and compares relevant trends in your area of interest. Users will also see a list of recommended Gemini suggestions to aid in deeper exploration.
The page has an updated design, with special icons and colors for each search term, making it easier to match the relevant line in the chart. In addition, Google increased the number of terms users could compare and doubled the number of queries that appeared in each timeline.
Google’s blog post uses a trending dog breed as an example to illustrate the new capabilities. AI automatically populates the graph with up to eight search terms, such as “golden retriever” or “beagle.” It also suggests related topics like “hypoallergenic dog breeds” or “large dog breeds” for further exploration. Users can hover over terms to edit or use filters for country, time, and property to customize the Trends timeline.
This update is part of Google’s efforts to integrate Gemini into its core offering. The company has added AI capabilities to Search, Gmail, Mapand Docs.