> While hate searches were about 20 percent of all top searches about Muslims before the attack, more than half of all search volume about Muslims became hatefu

> While hate searches were about 20 percent of all top searches about Muslims before the attack, more than half of all search volume about Muslims became hateful in the hours that followed it. > The search data also tells us that changes in Americans’ policy concerns have been dramatic. They happened, quite literally, within minutes of the terror attacks. I don't know how they got this "within hours" and "literally, within minutes" data, when they previously say the data was weekly > Yes. Using weekly data from 2004 to 2013, we found a direct correlation between anti-Muslim searches and anti-Muslim hate crimes.