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well, google coronavirus searches in China, specifically Hubei province, spiked in September of 2019. Science is a term being twisted out of its original conte

well, google coronavirus searches in China, specifically Hubei province, spiked in September of 2019. Science is a term being twisted out of its original context. if people keep doing that, its going to be a pejorative.

gnulinux 7y ago
How is Google searches relevant here? Was the news of possible coronovirus outbreak leaked to the public? Also, do you have a source?
IAmEveryone 7y ago
Even if I were inclined to believe such statements without a link, this doesn’t make any sense. For Google searches to spike, information about the disease would need to be public knowledge. And at that point, you wouldn’t need Google search traffic to prove anything. Also: Google is blocked in China, isn’t it?
bb2018 7y ago
Do you have a link to that? I'd love to know more about why this would be the case.
- raphlinus 7y ago
  Here's my attempt to validate the claim: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-01-01%202019-12-31&geo=CN&q=%2Fm%2F01cpyy https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-01-01%202... I'll leave it for readers to determine whether it holds up.
  - gnulinux 7y ago
    So there was 0 searches, then ~90 searches suddenly? Yeah no sounds like just noise. There will always be some people searching about corona viruses, they always existed and we always knew of them.
FrojoS 7y ago
Source?
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autokad 7y ago
to respond to everyone at once: I didnt include the link because this is public knowledge anyone can access. It was provided below but the original search doesnt work anymore. it literally worked till today. I do have a picture of it I had taken, but HN doesnt provide the ability to share pictures. It was a search for 'coronavirus' in china between 8/1/2019 and 01/01/2020. It showed a spike of 100 on September, 21, 2019 and another in December of 2019. However, this search no longer works. All of the traffic came from Hubei Province. what gnulinux said about '90' searches is wrong. This is 'Google Trends is a search trends feature that shows how frequently a given search term is entered into Google's search engine relative to the site's total search volume over a given period of time.' IAmEveryone comments are just all wrong. this doesnt mean 'it would have had to been public knowledge'. It means searches on google were performed on that term, specifically in Hubei Province. and yes, google is 'blocked' in china. That doesnt mean its not used there, just less often.

gnulinux 7y ago

How is Google searches relevant here? Was the news of possible coronovirus outbreak leaked to the public? Also, do you have a source?

IAmEveryone 7y ago

Even if I were inclined to believe such statements without a link, this doesn’t make any sense. For Google searches to spike, information about the disease would need to be public knowledge. And at that point, you wouldn’t need Google search traffic to prove anything. Also: Google is blocked in China, isn’t it?

bb2018 7y ago

Do you have a link to that? I'd love to know more about why this would be the case.

raphlinus 7y ago
Here's my attempt to validate the claim: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-01-01%202019-12-31&geo=CN&q=%2Fm%2F01cpyy https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-01-01%202... I'll leave it for readers to determine whether it holds up.
- gnulinux 7y ago
  So there was 0 searches, then ~90 searches suddenly? Yeah no sounds like just noise. There will always be some people searching about corona viruses, they always existed and we always knew of them.

FrojoS 7y ago

Source?

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autokad 7y ago

to respond to everyone at once: I didnt include the link because this is public knowledge anyone can access. It was provided below but the original search doesnt work anymore. it literally worked till today. I do have a picture of it I had taken, but HN doesnt provide the ability to share pictures. It was a search for 'coronavirus' in china between 8/1/2019 and 01/01/2020. It showed a spike of 100 on September, 21, 2019 and another in December of 2019. However, this search no longer works. All of the traffic came from Hubei Province. what gnulinux said about '90' searches is wrong. This is 'Google Trends is a search trends feature that shows how frequently a given search term is entered into Google's search engine relative to the site's total search volume over a given period of time.' IAmEveryone comments are just all wrong. this doesnt mean 'it would have had to been public knowledge'. It means searches on google were performed on that term, specifically in Hubei Province. and yes, google is 'blocked' in china. That doesnt mean its not used there, just less often.