• ColeSloth
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    15 days ago

    Everyone keeps writing up/sharing/posting this article, but no one has any actual numbers of search results. The 100 line is just a representation of when it was searched over the past thirty days. It’s not a representation of how many people actually searched it. That 100 mark could have just been 20 people for all we know.

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      15 days ago

      You cannuse the Glimpse extension for Google Trends to see absolute values of search popularity.

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        14 days ago

        Yeah, and how much was that day? Still a pretty meaningless percentage when there isn’t a real number to see. You can at least assume it was well over 20 people, based on that.