25 Things I Learned on Google Trends

Steve Rubel's article on the 25 things he kinda "deduced" from using Google Trends is sometimes hilarious, and sometimes utterly serious. Just what can we infer from comparing search terms? And just how "strong" are these deductions? Can serious research be based on trends of search terms on Google? Google Trends may become the tool which statisticians use to form their hypothesis, or it may lead us all into making extremely flawed deductions. I think the jury is still out on this.