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xcubic
If you watch a 7 day window it might be true, try a 30 day one and you might be surprise.
Tepix
The 30 day trend ends on September 29th
xcubic
What happens if you pick all the data? I can see way back to 2004?
oicat
For some reason the 30 day window only currently shows data up to and including September 29th.
xcubic
What happens if you pick all the data? I can see way back to 2004
dariusj18
But if you consider that the 7 day trend includes some of the days that the 30 day covers, it would seem to indicate that the spike in the last day is still orders of magnitude above what preceded it.
xcubic
You can't conclude that with relative data.
nullc
I chuckled and then pressed flag.
TheMblabla
I love how these types of posts get front page to get around the 'no politics' rule
MicahKV
I contributed to this spike. I wanted to make sure I didn't mangle the spelling in my FB & reddit posts regarding President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. In case anyone is wondering, the gist of my posts was this: "For all the poetic justice or schadenfreude one may feel right now, this is really a very bad development."
[dead] defkev
FB & reddit is where you should fuck back off to.
kumarvvr
Does this even mean anything?

If you see 5 year trends, it shows random noise.

True, for a few days, there is a "trend". However, what the graph shows is "relative trends".

So, if there were 20 searches for a term in past 7 days, 20 per day, and on 8th day, the searches were 40, it means there is a 100% jump.

But if you expand the time period, and the last week you had 100 searches per day, then this week there is a 80% decrease.

These trends are mostly useful only in the long term.

aeortiz
Number 5 on the list: "United States Presidential line of succession" --eye-roll--