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Use Google Frightgeist to Find a Unique Halloween Costume

How many times have you shown up to a Halloween party excited to show off your costume only to be met with a handful of people who are dressed exactly like you? If you’re determined to make sure you stand out and win that costume contest this year, Google has created a special search tool, Frightgeist, to help.

Frightgeist is a search data tool developed by Google that uses search data to…

#Google Reveals the Most-Searched #Halloween Costumes of 2019 -- #Xanjero

Google is out with its annual list of the top Halloween costume searches for the year, including individuals, couples, groups, babies, and pets…

Google has revealed the most often searched Halloween costumes for 2019 on its annual ‘Frightgeit‘ list.

Google Reveals the Most-Searched Halloween Costumes of 2019

Whether it’s for individuals seeking ideas, groups who want to coordinate, or for babies…

Fortnite fever and verified Vermonsters: Frightgeist Halloween trends for 2018

We’re a little bit more than a fortnight away from Halloween 2018, so it’s time to head to Search for costume inspiration. This year’s Frightgeist—brought to you by Google Trends—shows what’s brewing in the costume cauldron near you and in other hot spots across the country.

The top searched costumes for 2018 are a not-so-macabre mix of Halloween classics (where my witches at?) and…

Freightgeist is a fun and novel way to view Google searches for types of halloween costumes! Based on Google Trends, the site, created by Google News Labs, displays an animated map of the US with floating bubbles. Each bubble represents a large city or area and the size of the bubble corresponds to the number of searches made in that area for that particular category of costume.

If you put the cursor over a bubble, it will show you the top costume searched in that place. If you click that bubble, it will give you further insights into the ideas for costumes searched by Googlers. A similar page comes up if you use the search feature to look for a particular costume, character, genre, etc. which will show you the likelihood someone else in your area will be wearing that type of costume.

I love seeing creative ways new media creators have used data visualization to make research and statistics engaging, intriguing, and exploratory. This use of crowdsourced data is an interesting way to engage Google users with the content they give the site just by making searches.