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Comment · 1 hour ago
Hey, just came up with idea to do some researched on how worried people are about AI taking their jobs so I've collected Google Trends data for 56 jobs from the past 5 years.

In case trends only gives relative number for one comparison - every comparison included the same anchor term (searches about programmers) and every job is scaled against it, also exact phrases like "will AI replace accountants" were too rare for most jobs so each job combines a few phrasings with Trends "+" operator.

Google Trends disallows scraping so I built simple Chrome plugin that helped me to open all 96 comparisons manually and it automatically saved what each page loaded.

Interesting findings that I didn't expect - worry went up over the last year for every job except programmers which peaked in March 2024.

It measures attention and not a real risk also broad matching catches other meanings so a few jobs were dropped, but I hope you will find it interesting to check. All of it is on the page, and the data is a free CSV.

Comment · 8 years ago
Thank you for the response. Actually I also don't see it as "massive" thing, small niche is fine, especially if you fit well into it :) But despite that, I'm interested why do you see it in that way? Because the type of content? Or because the way of consuming content in such way? Or both? :)
Comment · 8 years ago
I would greatly appreciate it if you kindly give me some short feedback and your first impressions: is it clear what about is this website from the first sight? Does it look useful tool for you? And if you just closed your browser tab thinking "pfff nothing useful" - what's the main reason of this? I'm really open to criticism, don't hesitate :) Thank You
Comment · 9 years ago
Hmm nice idea. Could be useful to keep your eye on some upcoming stuff. I see that news are "Trending" and "Recent" - how do you determine which news articles are trending?
Comment · 12 years ago
In fact yes. But its the same with every new service or? Also "sell to businessess" is not really correct wording... why? Because after you register on spoffer and subscribe to some channels (businesses) spoffer itself is the only one "entry point" to you for businesses. They don't get your email or social network access and you don't risk to get spam there later on.
Comment · 12 years ago
Not yet. The idea is to have it globally, but for now only some well known US brand names are covered. But your question is about different markets, its impossible to launch such kind (business to people) of website in all over the World at once :) But theoretically - yes, of course its for you in case there will be a lot of Australian retailers, service providers and etc. publishing their offers.
Comment · 12 years ago
Agree. The idea is to have all notifications configurable, only "silent" notification which is visibile when you connect to website or app, email notification on/off, mobile app notification on/off - for example if you're preparing for your new skying season and want to buy some new equipment, maybe its not so annoying to get push notifications from www.dickssportinggoods.com about great sale of winter goods?

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