A live Google Trends board is not the weekly Search series. At 2026-09-04T08:01:31Z, get_top_trends ranked mapquest 7. get_growth on Google Search for the week of 2026-08-29 returned score 23.0, estimated volume 605,000, and 7D growth of -4.17% versus 24.0. Google News for the same keyword scored 26.0 against a 0.0 baseline on every preset window, so growth printed 999999. YouTube scored 1.0 versus 0.0 on 7D. TikTok and Reddit both returned 404 no_data. Google Maps Search sat at 84.0 with estimated volume 145,000,000. A job that waits for weekly Search to jump will miss the live rank. A job that stores 999999 as a feature will lie about News. Pair the board, the raw scores, and the competitor volumes.
What did the live boards show on 2026-09-04?
get_top_trends with type Google Trends, limit 25, as_of 2026-09-04T08:01:31Z:
| rank | keyword |
|---|---|
| 1 | lindsay clancy verdict |
| 2 | carla jeffery |
| 7 | mapquest |
| 8 | tropical depression edouard |
| 10 | chatgpt |
| 14 | gta 6 release date |
| 18 | dragon ball burger king meal |
The 1D rank_change sort, baseline 2026-09-03T02:01:37Z, put mapquest at rank 7 versus prev_rank 10, rank_change +3. Lead 1D movers were cassandra wilson (+94, rank 38 vs 132) and dlss 5 (+61, rank 84 vs 145). Rank 7 with a +3 daily delta is a climb, not a new entry.
The 7D rank_change sort, baseline 2026-08-28T02:01:40Z, returned only 3 movers: julia stiles (+86, rank 47 vs 133), lindsay clancy verdict (+19, rank 1 vs 20), and a CJK token at rank 131. mapquest was not in that list. Rank 7 with no 7D rank_change means the token was already inside the window a week earlier. Pair board rank with get_growth. Do not treat a missing mover row as a quiet Search series.
Google News Top News, limit 15, as_of 2026-09-04T10:01:32Z, omitted MapQuest. Lead rows were a Nepal flood rescue, a mail-in ballot filing, and a Fox News host departure. Keyword News at 26.0 and the Top News board are different feeds. YouTube Trending, limit 15, was music videos, a Monster Hunter trailer, and State of Play. No MapQuest row.
Source fields for the Search board are on Google Trends. The Java client that POSTs both the board and get_growth is Java Trends API.
What did get_growth return for mapquest Search?
get_growth on Google Search, keyword mapquest, recent_date 2026-08-29, recent_value 23.0, estimated volume 605,000.
| Period | Baseline date | Baseline score | Baseline volume | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7D | 2026-08-22 | 24.0 | 632,000 | -4.17% |
| 14D | 2026-08-15 | 27.0 | 711,000 | -14.81% |
| 30D | 2026-08-01 | 29.0 | 763,000 | -20.69% |
| 3M | 2026-05-30 | 48.0 | 1,260,000 | -52.08% |
| 12M | 2025-08-30 | 21.0 | 553,000 | +9.52% |
| YTD | 2026-01-03 | 15.0 | 395,000 | +53.33% |
Weekly Search is falling on every window shorter than 12M. Live rank 7 is not a weekly spike. The 3M drop from 48.0 to 23.0 is the series coming off spring peaks, not a brand dying this week. YTD from 15.0 to 23.0 is +53.33%. Keep both.
get_time_series on the same keyword, 261 weekly points, peaks at 100 on 2026-02-14 with volume 2,631,579. Other 2026 highs: 68 on 2026-02-07, 67 on 2026-04-18, 80 on 2026-06-20. The 2026-08-29 tip at 23 / 605,263 is below all of those. News for the 2026-02-14 peak week was 0. The February Search 100 had no News series behind it. The current live rank is the opposite pattern: News moved, Search has not.
POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api
Authorization: Bearer <api_key>
Content-Type: application/json
{"mode":"get_growth","source":"google search","keyword":"mapquest","percent_growth":["7D","30D","3M","12M"]}
The response envelope is {"statusCode": int, "body": string}. body is a JSON string and must be parsed a second time before reading results. That is the number one integration mistake on this endpoint.
What did News, YouTube, and Wikipedia return?
Google News for mapquest, recent_date 2026-08-29, recent_value 26.0. Every listed baseline is 0.0, so every listed growth is 999999. The API also flagged data_quality: low because the underlying signal is over 90% zeros. Print 26.0. Do not store 999999.
get_time_series on Google News is almost all zeros. Two non-zero weeks exist in the pull: 85 on 2025-06-07 and 26 on 2026-08-29. The 2026-08-29 week is the first non-zero News week of 2026. Live rank 7 on 2026-09-04 sits on that News week, not on a Search jump.
YouTube for mapquest scored 1.0 on 2026-08-29 versus 0.0 on 2026-08-22 (growth 999999). Versus 6.0 on 2026-08-01, growth is -83.33%. Versus 4.0 on 2026-05-30, growth is -75.0%. YTD is flat at 1.0 versus 1.0. A 1.0 YouTube score is not a video breakout. It is a floor tick.
Wikipedia resolved mapquest as title Mapquest. Monthly tip 2026-08-01: score 100.0, 385 views, versus July 20.5 / 149 views (+387.8% score, +158.39% volume). Versus May 4.7 / 102 views. Versus August 2025 19.2 / 145 views. 385 pageviews is a tiny article hitting 100 because the baseline is tiny. Do not join 385 views onto 605,000 Search estimated volume. Wikipedia fields are on Wikipedia Trends.
TikTok get_growth for mapquest returned 404 no_data. Reddit returned the same 404. Absence of a series is a finding. A monitor that requires those sources will skip the token that is rank 7 on Search.
How does mapquest compare with google maps, waze, and apple maps?
Scores are 0-100 per keyword. Do not rank MapQuest 23 against Google Maps 84. Compare estimated volume where the API returns it.
| Keyword | 7D score | 7D growth | 30D growth | 3M growth | 12M growth | YTD growth | Est. volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mapquest | 23.0 | -4.17% | -20.69% | -52.08% | +9.52% | +53.33% | 605,000 |
| google maps | 84.0 | -4.55% | -8.7% | 0.0% | -8.7% | +52.73% | 145,000,000 |
| waze | 36.0 | -12.2% | -18.18% | -33.33% | 0.0% | +16.13% | |
| apple maps | 38.0 | -19.15% | -34.48% | -35.59% | +8.57% | +31.03% |
Google Maps estimated volume is 145,000,000 against MapQuest 605,000. Waze returned no volume field in this pull. Apple Maps scored 38.0 with 7D growth of -19.15%, a steeper one-week drop than MapQuest. All four 7D windows are down. The live board still singled out MapQuest. That is the reason to store get_top_trends rank beside get_growth, not instead of it.
A demand-sensing loop that writes board rank, weekly score, News score, and competitor volume is the pattern on Demand sensing API. The Java helper that issues those POSTs is Java Trends API.
What should a daily job store for a live-rank token?
get_top_trendsrank,as_of_ts, and 1Drank_changewhen the token appears.get_growthrawrecent_valueandrecent_volume. Skip the 999999 label when the baseline is 0.0.- News and YouTube as separate source rows. Keyword News is not Google News Top News.
- Wikipedia volume, not Wikipedia score, when the page is small.
- 404
no_dataon TikTok or Reddit as a stored miss, not a retry loop.
Weekly Search for mapquest is 23.0 and falling. Live rank is 7. News is 26.0 on a series that was zero for all of 2026 until the week of 2026-08-29. Those three facts disagree. Store all three. A pipeline that collapses them into one "MapQuest trend" number will publish the wrong week.