Is there a better version of Google Trends available from Google, a service you’d have to pay for but would be worth it if your a marketer?   One blogger seems to thinks that’s what’s ahead for Google Trends Pro.

"While the trends are still nice to see, you have to think that there’s something bigger here that Google will pull out of its sleeve sooner or later: a paid trends analysis tool.

I mean, if you were XYZ BigCorp™, wouldn’t you pay $1000 a month for access to data like this:

• 3500 people searched for my product in Seattle this month
• 0 people searched for my product in Toronto this month
• there were 80,000 more people searching for my competitor’s product in the past month than were searching for my product
• the number of people searching for my company or my brand(s) online is increasing every month (or decreasing every month)
• the people who are searching for my product are also searching for these 5 other products

That would be incredibly valuable information, drawn from a huge sample, that companies would pay big dollars for. I’m wondering when Google (or Yahoo!, or any other search engine) will come out with a product like this".

BTW, some of this information you can get out of AdCenter and you could probably get a pretty good estimate from HitWise.