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Top News Trends is an attempt to answer the question: Why is that term on google trends?

We attempt to answer it by crowdsourcing from the collective widsom of twitter users.

How does it work?

• Google trends atom feed is checked regularly for new trends.
• Twitter is searched for these terms.
• Yahoo web services identify important terms from tweets (these are used as tags)

Improvements

• filter tweets better (some are clearly not relevant)
• group trends (often several words on google trends are the same news story, we should be able to group trends together)
• pull data from other news sites (tweeter is the only place for later breaking news, suggestions for other places to pull from are welcome)