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Ok, double weirdness. Earlier I was seeing spikes in late 2007 for almost any query. At first I thought it was confirming my theory because that's when the hou
by neilk 17y ago
Ok, double weirdness. Earlier I was seeing spikes in late 2007 for almost any query.
At first I thought it was confirming my theory because that's when the housing bubble was really popping. But it was also there for control words, including "the". So I reported a bug in their forum.
But now that's all gone. Either that was speedy corrective action or a transient problem.
- pygy 17y agoIt's gone here too (I'm from Belgium). Edit: it's back again, but not if you look at the year 2007 specifically. The regional differences in seasonal patterns are interresting, I think. They all exihibit a major drop in the summer months. On top of that there's a 3 month periodicity in Australia and a 1.5 month periodicity in the UK. In the US, there's a drop mid november each year. Are there English or Australian citizens around to explain what happens? I assume it's related to national holidays, but it would be nice to have a confirmation.
- pbhj 17y agoI see a general trend on all queries peaking around March and late November. This matches what I see on retail websites I have access to the backend of. Searches like money, sex and music are quite flat but appear to have a low profile match to this general trend. "sun cream" and "snowman" are clear counter examples.
- pygy 17y agoLooking at the detailed trafic, year per year, I can't see any such tendency. Some years, there are some bumps for sex around November or March, but never both, and their amplitude isn't bigger than the seemingly random fluctuations.