• blobjim [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    this google search trends stuff is the laziest commentary ever. It's tea leaf reading level political analysis. Google Trends is not a reliable source of information.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 hours ago

      back when Alta vista was the best search engine, it had this cool/funny feature where you could look at a random collection of what was being searched right then. I would show my friends and we would laugh so hard at some of them, especially repeated searches because they told a story of someone desperate for more info.

      • "butt hole smells weird"
      • "was Paul riser in my 2 dads"
      • "is my son gay"
      • "my son is gay"
      • "prayers for gay son"
      • "cool money pictures"
    • join_the_iww [he/him]
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      5 hours ago

      Yeah you're right. Furthermore, the graph that they show for "Did Joe Biden drop out" isn't even in absolute units, so we can't actually tell how many people are making this query. They normalize it so that the maximum is always represented by 100, but that still might only be like <1000 people.