Myth: if two volatility trackers disagree, one is broken

Myth: if two volatility trackers disagree, one is broken
On the radar — dismissing a tracker because it doesn't match another.

The correction
Trackers sample different keyword sets, categories, and locations, so disagreement is expected, not a malfunction.

Read this
— Semrush Sensor — publishes per-category and per-country volatility, which naturally diverges from broad-sample tools.
— Mozcast — built on a fixed keyword corpus, so it reflects that corpus's movement, not the whole web.

Chatter
— Search Engine Roundtable often shows several trackers at once, precisely because no single one is definitive.

The nuance: agreement across multiple trackers raises confidence; divergence usually means different samples.

One to bookmark: a multi-tracker view (Roundtable's daily volatility roundups) for cross-checking.