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qid 10586 · computer science

Question: A search engine has a trend-tracking feature that provides information on how popular a search term is. The data can be filtered by geographic region, date, and category. Categories include arts and entertainment, computers and electronics, games, news, people and society, shopping, sports, and travel. Which of the following questions is LEAST likely to be answerable using the trends feature?

  1. In which political candidates are people interested?
  2. Which region of the country has the greatest number of people searching for opera performances?
  3. What is the cost of a certain electronics product?
  4. In what month does a particular sport receive the most searches?

Our answer: C. What is the cost of a certain electronics product? Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)

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How it was answered

Multi-step solver (maze), replayed by code

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Current source

Google Trends Help, "Refine Trends results by category"

https://support.google.com/trends/answer/4359597?hl=en

“If you're using Trends to search for a word that has multiple meanings, you can filter your results to a certain category to get data for the right version of the word.”

Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)

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Earlier version (superseded)

https://support.google.com/trends/answer/4365533?hl=en

Source weak (http_get_200_text_and_question_terms)

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Earlier version (superseded)

No public source has been found for this card yet (3 places checked internally).

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