The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to online
information analysis. In general, in one implementation, a system
includes a collection engine configured to accumulate document
information retrieved from publicly accessible network resources
according to predefined subjects, and an analysis engine configured to
analyze the accumulated document information to identify change over a
time period in general discussion of a topic within a selected subject of
the predefined subjects, the analysis engine further configured to
normalize the identified change over the time period based on change in a
total number of documents found for the selected subject during the time
period.