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I was trying one of Google Trends’s new features, the Trends for Websites, which is similar to what you see in Alexa and Compete. The feature allows you to view the number of unique visitors a site is getting, and even compare it to the visitors from other related sites. The results also show the regions where most of its visitors are coming from.

To see how it works, I typed in the search box: Google.Com, Yahoo.Com, MSN.com, AOL.Com, and Ask.Com—all separated with commas. Surprisingly, no data appear for Google.Com.

I went to Compete to see their data for these sites. Yet as you can see in the graph below, Google.com has millions of users.

So I wondered why there was no data available for Google.Com in Google Trends. I went back to it, and search Google.Com alone, and clicked the Learn More link.

So why does Google Trends for Websites not have data to display for Google.Com?

Maybe Google just want to humble themselves, or they thought why would someone care. Whatever the reason is, Google has the right not to include their data anyways since it was them who created this tool. As they have said in Google Trends Help page not all websites are included. Those that aren’t are:

Websites with low traffic volume below our threshold

Websites that don’t wish to be indexed by Google and have indicated their preference through a robots.txt exclusion file

Websites that don’t adhere to our Quality Guidelines

Other websites for miscellaneous reasons

With the criteria mentioned above for a website exclusion, Google.Com perhaps is under the 2nd or 4th category. Anyways, I figured out that Alexa does not rank their own site as well, while Compete does.