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Google's algorithm takes into account the timeliness of events. So despite his recent success, people are probably still looking up the word, rather than the p
by pyoung 15y ago
Google's algorithm takes into account the timeliness of events. So despite his recent success, people are probably still looking up the word, rather than the person (and on a large enough scale to overcome the timeliness weighting).
- jsnell 15y agoIf that were the case, the normalized search volume for the term would be fairly constant over time. But according to Google Trends it isn't http://www.google.com/trends?q=santorum http://www.google.com/trends?q=santorum . Further, you can see that the search traffic of other Republican presidential candidates has a similar pattern. So clearly right now, and for the past year, the vast majority of searches have been for the person rather than the supposed word. (And nothing definite can be said about what the intent was in the time before that.)
- jonhendry 15y agoSantorum's recent success has probably also resulted in bunch of fresh, new links from his name to the spreadingsantorum site.