Huh. John Lennon was right. (However, if you leave off the “Christ”, Jesus wins handily…)
Everything is more popular than The Straight Dope as far as I can tell on trends…
Nah,the Straight Dope is much more popular than Camelopardalis.
We lost to Godfather , but can anyone think of a reason for the spike in 2006?
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We lost to Godfather , but can anyone think of a reason for the spike in 2006?
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It’s actually late 2005, and as near as I can make out, that’s when the Godfather video game came out.
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It’s actually late 2005, and as near as I can make out, that’s when the Godfather video game came out.
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No, it’s 2006. The vertical gridlines separate years. As you can see if you change the scale just to show 2006: http://www.google.com/trends?q=“Straight+Dope”%2C+“godfather”&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2006&sort=0
March 2006.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=lawnmowers%2C+alarm+clocks&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Interesting… Alarm clocks briefly overtake lawnmowers in popularity shortly before Christmas each year 