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Google Trends shows sudden decline for Google.com
- tcarnell 15y agoseems to have happened across other google sites too: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.co.uk%2C+google.es%2C+google.de%2C+google.dk&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.co.uk%2C+google.es%2C+...
- bfung 15y agoThe metric provided is based on searches for google.com on google, and doesn't represent the website's usage. Perhaps some shortcut created or UI enhancement (like autocomplete) this year helped people stop searching for the search engine itself. Here's a query in Google Trends for the word 'google' itself: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all...
- joezydeco 15y agoBoth Firefox and Chrome take invalid URLs from the address bar and stick them right into Google. That's probably a huge factor.