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nymusicdaily's avatar

ok. maybe getting way ahead of the curve here -but that's how I roll ;)

sarracenia purpurea, pitcher plant, natural smallpox cures, vegetables with highest calories, covid vaccines not safe for children (last one obvious but curious to how it trends)

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I've read about the pitcher plant and smallpox myself...oddly the spike there is in 2019

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Dr. Flurm Googlybean's avatar

Interesting — there certainly was interest in home gardening in summer ‘20. Plants disappeared at nurseries very quickly. Also interesting there wasn’t another peak this year with all the food shortage worries…

Still “how to grow food” is a thing that sounds like searching for “how to eat” or “how to read” somehow…

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I'm trying to fine tune search terms I put in, but if I get too specific there is no data available. For example "Food bank distribution schedule in my area" generates no search trends results but "Food bank distribution schedule near me" has gone crazy...

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Dr. Flurm Googlybean's avatar

So how to raise <favorite vegetable> has a nice peak whichever you pick — so does “how to raise chickens”. “how to raise pigs” is completely flat.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I was figuring on expanding to broader searches on growing food. Pigs are tough they need a pen and some space. Rabbits, shrimp/fish/crabs and goats are popular

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Dr. Flurm Googlybean's avatar

There appear to be associated words with these searches — If I narrow the time range down to the peak there and US, it appears people were really interested in growing zucchini. I can just see all these poor people putting in half a dozen zucchini plants and having the stuff filling their houses by end of summer!

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Dr. Flurm Googlybean's avatar

Aha — and there are “what to do with zucchini” peaks later in summer 2020 AND 2021, — so evidently they remembered how to grow them, since 2021 didn’t have the corresponding “how to grow” peak

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

That's a great observation I've made with my fruit trees: food is only good to grow if you actually use it. So searches should move from how to grow to how to harvest how to preserve and how to cook/recipes

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Dr. Flurm Googlybean's avatar

If they succeed :)

But thats particularly true with zucchini — standard rookie mistake is to plant several plants in a first garden, and before you know it you’re buried in the stuff!

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Old and in the way's avatar

Might help if one spells "defibrilator" correctly......🤐

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Vigilant Amalek Snow Leopard's avatar

"Steve Kirsch"

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Popularity peaked in late 2021 and he still is more popular than climate change

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Vigilant Amalek Snow Leopard's avatar

"AZOV Battalion Nazis"

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

LOL I'll make sure and spell it a few different ways just for fun. ;)

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Vigilant Amalek Snow Leopard's avatar

ha ha.

Another one: "VAIDS"

Hey Amy, I think another interesting metric is to see if the first posts upon search are "fact checker" articles.

Honestly this to me is a very salient metric as to where there is something there. A Streisand effect type deal. Not always, "Snake Venom" spiked after that theory.

But...

For ex. if Jimmy Dore or John Campbell is talking about something "edgy", I know right there that it is cleared for take off by the minders. It has been surrendered.

Ryan Cristian of TLAV does a show on pirated YouTube accounts. Sometimes they remain up, and sometimes they get banned right quick. Ryan always sources his stuff and is very fair and detail oriented. So right there if YT bans it, I know that something legit and censored is going on.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I've searched VAIDS charts before on trends. It peaked with Omicron but still seems very popular in parts of Africa like Nigeria. The Streisand effect is fascinating here I've long thought just doing the opposite of what they say is the best way to live...

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Old and in the way's avatar

How about "Implantable Cardioverter Defribilator" (ICD) for all those recently diagnosed with heart failure?

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Spikes in June 2021 after the mass jab rollout

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Now that's an interesting one! I'll run some of these in a few minutes...

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