Evidence and method

Where the signals come from

3 public sources, 5 markets, captured every 2 hours. Only sources that actually write observations are listed — planned marketplaces in the data model are not treated as live intelligence.

See published trends

Search interest

Google Trends

5 markets

Public Trending Now RSS for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. This is a search-interest signal. Traffic values are ordinal buckets, not exact search volume.

Contributes: Search interest. Trending Now keywords per country, with ordinal traffic buckets such as 1000+ rather than exact volume.
Does not: Not a product catalog, not news republishing, and not a forecast of future search volume.
Weighting: Heaviest weight in the entity score — it is the only source covering all five markets with consistent keyword-level signal.

Video attention

YouTube

5 markets

YouTube Data API mostPopular videos by country. View and engagement counts are a social/video signal, not proof of sales.

Contributes: Video attention. Most popular videos per country, with view and engagement counts, plus rank movement between snapshots.
Does not: Not proof of purchases. Video titles are never merged into products by fuzzy matching.
Weighting: Strongest numeric time series we hold, so it drives momentum more than absolute level.

Marketplace listings

eBay

Singapore only

eBay Browse API listing snapshots. Current collection is Singapore search results. This is not a picture of every marketplace, and listing rank is not sales volume.

Contributes: Marketplace listings. Browse API search snapshots including rank, persistence, and price where present. Price is stored, not scored as sales.
Does not: Does not represent Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop, Amazon, or “all marketplaces”. Current collection is Singapore search results.
Weighting: Smallest weight, because coverage is one platform in one market.

How it works

From observation to published trend

Six stages. Nothing skips the gate, and nothing is published to fill space.

01
Collect
Automated collectors capture public observations per country and store them raw, with the capture time.
02
Resolve
Observations are linked to entities by exact or alias matching. Similar-looking names are not merged.
03
Score
A deterministic engine weighs recency, frequency, coverage, and movement per source, then combines what exists.
04
Quality-check
History depth, freshness, and evidence strength decide whether an entity is fit to publish.
05
Explain
An interpretation is generated from that same evidence. If it fails or is missing, the entity still publishes without one.
06
Publish
Only entities that pass the gate reach this website. Everything else stays internal.

Limits

What this platform does not claim

Trend Score measures observed attention and movement in public signals. It is not a forecast, a demand estimate, or a sales figure.

A single source moving is a lead, not a conclusion. Confidence rises when independent sources move together, and the score weights each source by the coverage it actually has.

Coverage is currently 5 markets. Nothing outside them is monitored, so absence here is not evidence of absence in the world. Browse what is published.