Google Trends: Obtaining absolute values
Google Trends Explore returns relative values of rising topics. As well as top queries in each category. They are not very telling because +2,400% may occur in the trends rising from 10 to 240 queries, while more important trends are missing, like those that rose from 100K to 200K queries. This could be a great tool for research, but how to extract (recalculate, etc.) absolute numbers of queries for these items from Google Trends? It is not in its basic interface; only if find some workarounds with extraction and possible blending with other sources.
PS: There's Google AdWords Keyword Tool, which returns absolute values. Though its interface is less comfortable to work with.
Answer
well, you can game the system by submitting pairs of keywords, and looking at the relative values, thus creating an absolute scale.
e.g. compare term1 to orange, compare orange to peach, compare peach to term 2.
get the orders of magnitude.