5 categories · RankedGoogle Trends
Google Trends is a Google tool used for topic validation · google.com ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Competitive intel, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Apollo.io is first at 39%.
Apollo.io is first at 22%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“Google Trends + Think with Google (Free – Best Overall Free Option)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Overall for Most Companies”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Google Trends + Similarweb free + Crunchbase free give a viable $0 market intelligence minimum viable stack.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Free, AI-enhanced tool to spot search-behavior shifts, seasonal patterns, and emerging interests.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Trends, over the 56 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 12 | View → | |
| 14 | 3 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Trends's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Founded
- 1998
- Also from Google
- Adometry, Attribution 360, BigQuery, Firebase, Google ADH, Google Ad Manager and 83 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 47 of the 56 answers that named Google Trends and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
119 of the 119 domain citations in answers naming Google Trends came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |