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How you can see the trend of a specific sentence as searched on Google?
For example: How do I see the number of searches for "banana cake" on a monthly basis?
Does Google have some function which allows you to search for a sentence, and see how many times it has been searched for each month?
You can do President (Obama|Bush|Clinton), but depending on popularity of each, you may still have to do separate searches. For example, Tiger Woods will overwhelm the search results in the second case.
You can modify the url parameter hl in this way:
hl=en (for English)hl=ru (for Russian)hl=de (for German) and so on.
Another possibility is to use yubnub search engine. You can define a new custom command to get search result in desired language.
Suppose that you want to get Google Search result in Russian, you can define a command called goru with url defined as https://www.google.com/#hl=ru&output=search&q=%s. You can define other command like goit (Italian), gode (German) and so on by substituting the hl= part with correspondent language abbreviation.
Best Answer
You can enter your search on Google Trends. For example, here is a graph showing the monthly search interest for "banana cake".
Note that the monthly numbers on the graph aren't the exact number of times that people searched for "banana cake". Google explains this on a support page: