Google announced they have updated hot trends / searches to add images, news stories, the volume of searches and now they also cluster searches together to form a single keyword group.

For example, Apple is currently a Hot Search but the related clustered keywords are wwdc, apple store, ios 6, wwdc 2012.

That being said, how useful is this tool for SEOs? A WebmasterWorld thread has Tedster, the forum administrator, saying:

Here is a picture of the new Hot Searches:

So what do you think? A useful tool for SEOs?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.