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    Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit… this world would be such a better place if people just did the bare minimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!

    Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren’t so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him

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      Whenever I see all the trash on the side of the road, I know why the world is that way.

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      No, the US version of Brexit was Trump’s first term, since they both happened in the same year.

      This is just people saying they know exactly how bad Brexit went the first time and they want that again.

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      I think that most of them do a lot of reading. The problem is that they just read news and info that they like and have no ability to criticise arguments. Critic thinking is the main problem imho.

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    The relative numbers are worth little without knowing the underlying numbers. If it went from 100 to 700 people, that is still negligble. Also crazy how people immediately take that as a base to remove voters rights unless they pass some sort of test. Nothing could go wrong with stripping voters rights amirite?

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    I don’t know how trustworthy these search trends are. For example if you type in “where did I put my” it will complete all kinds of stuff like “keys” and “wallet” and “passport” which seems to imply that people are regularly asking Google where they placed items in their own house.

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    Is this the “Find out” stage then?

    Actions have consequences. Sad people had to figure it out this way.

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    This is all bullshit, designed to start another wave of outrage. Even after the election, we’ve gotta have more stuff to rage about. News these days is just rage all day every day, no matter what.

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      I’ve said it the whole election cycle. The news downplayed every Trump gaffe because they wanted him back to fuel the outrage click machine. They wanted that sweet revenue back after 4 boring years of Biden just ya know doing his fucking job.

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      I had to have new anxiety meds called in because all of the political stuff is sending me into panic attacks. I’ve been avoiding politics as much as possible since the day after the election because it causes so much anxiety.

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    Once again, these are the a validation headlines that create and support echo chambers. Honestly, what does it matter now?

    We already know the regret is strong on this nation and will only get worse.

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        That is a percentage score. So you take the highest level of searches and it will always be 100% and all lesser scores are in comparison to that score of 100(%). If you can find out what the actual number of searches are for that one score, you can derive the approximate number of searches in the other places. It shows an informational tool tip on desktop.

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          Well that’s less than entirely helpful.

          Thank you very much for the explanation!

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            Your welcome… I liked it when it was Google Zeitgeist and they published hard numbers but since they rebranded and named their video series Google Zeitgeist good luck finding out the actual numbers 🤐

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        100 means that’s when the searches hit their most popular peak while 0 means nothing was really searched. Google trends does not show actual search volumes.

        Google Trends looks at search terms compared with all searches done (in a specific geographic region and time point). That data is then normalized.

        It’s essentially looking at popularity trends of is this hot or not.

        Source: I am a former SEO

        Edit: here are specifics about what I mentioned above if you’re curious.

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          Iowa is just where that term was the most popularly searched. However, it was searched in all states.

          I explained Google Trends a bit more here if you’re curious.

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        It could have been droves… it also could have been 10 people. It also doesn’t say which way they wanted to change their vote. It could all be LIV’s who learned something they didn’t know after voting early or it could have been people torn about their vote panicking and seeing if they could change their mind.

        This doesn’t tell you anything but people searched it and not how many.

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          It doesn’t say if it was a metric drove or an imperial drove. Shoddy journalism, if you ask me.