Relative search interest · Monthly pull, five years of history

Google Trends

The shape of interest over time: when a term rose, when it peaked, where it is searched most.

Run by: Google
Since: 2006
We refresh it: Monthly pull, five years of history

Google Trends reports how interest in a search term has moved over time, scaled from 0 to 100 against the peak in the window you ask for. It also reports interest by country and the queries rising alongside the one you asked about.

We read it through SerpApi so the pull is scriptable and repeatable, and we store the series rather than a screenshot, which is what lets the charts on the search-trend page go back five years.

Why we rely on it

It is drawn from Google's own search logs, the largest sample of search behaviour that exists.
The five-year view is long enough to show whether a category is a news spike or a durable habit, which is the question that matters most in a field this young.
Interest by country is a genuinely independent check on where demand sits, separate from the traffic estimates we get elsewhere.

What we take from it

The category's trend: Five years of interest in “ai girlfriend”, worldwide and United States, on the search-trend page.
Interest by country: Which countries search the term hardest, shown against the volume figures.
Rising queries: What is climbing next to the term, which is usually a news story or a new brand.
Per-brand interest: On brand pages, the same index for the brand's own name, used to tell a steady audience from a spike.

What it cannot tell us

The scale is relative. A score of 100 means the peak of that window, not a number of people, so Trends can never tell you how big something is.
It is sampled, and small terms are noisy or empty.
Terms that share a name with something else are contaminated. We check for that and say when a brand's trend line is not really about the brand.

Where you will see it on this site

Cited as Google Trends, with the month it covers, on:

The source itself

This is the only page on the site that links out to Google Trends. Everywhere else, a citation links here instead, so the context travels with the number.

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The other sources

Written by Hunter Gray, Founder, Owner & Writer. Top AI Girlfriends is not affiliated with Google Trends. How all the sources fit together is on the methodology page; the data in use is on the best AI girlfriend ranking.