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WorldMarketFella t1_j24q9lw wrote

I wonder what that Japan spike can be attributed to

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veleros OP t1_j24v7hb wrote

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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ThankGodSecondChance t1_j26ru2q wrote

I assumed the question was rhetorical but then I realized to my horror that a 14 year-old would legitimately have no idea.

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lolwutpear t1_j24vabr wrote

Probably the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 (or, less likely: maybe their women's world cup win later that year).

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calvinball_hero t1_j25k0d1 wrote

Iā€™m surprised that many people made a typo when searching for Saudi Arabia

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DiFrence t1_j250e5r wrote

What does the different coloring mean?

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veleros OP t1_j250tol wrote

Darker blue highlights the countries that did get a record search interest during the world cup

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veleros OP t1_j24of8l wrote

Searching for a country in order to look for the score may help inflate the search index but other data reveals that people truly are interested in reading more about each country. For example, the main Wikipedia article for many participating countries received record visitors during the World Cup.

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SorryImNotVeryClever t1_j27mcgr wrote

This is what I was wondering. I was like, is everyone just looking up scores or looking for streams?

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AmiAlter t1_j25oj3d wrote

I just love the slow build of Ghana because it's very likely related to the Ghanaian funeral dance video.

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very_vegan_man t1_j286d1e wrote

It's 2004-2022, so the slow build isn't attributed to that. But the spike just before the world cup is probably because of that video

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5ClearUrinations t1_j2551ma wrote

What do the values mean? I thought they were a metric of interest for a country compared to that countryā€™s times of highest and lowest number of searches where 100 is the time when it was highest and 0 is lowest. However, I noticed that not all countries have an index at 0.

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veleros OP t1_j255e8y wrote

The values mean exactly what you say. All countries have indexes from 0 to 100.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j256gsq wrote

My guess is that the index is calculated from searches since the birth of Google and not just searches since 2004.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j2560do wrote

I do see the 100 indices for every country, but most of them donā€™t have an index of 0.

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veleros OP t1_j256i7s wrote

It is the clearest among the indices. Solid gray line

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5ClearUrinations t1_j256ueq wrote

Thatā€™s the line that acts as the border for the graph. Iā€™m saying that each countryā€™s data never reaches 0.

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mfb- t1_j25p0bj wrote

100% is the highest search interest, 0 is zero search interest. Most countries don't have their search interest change by a factor 100.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j25x4cv wrote

That isnā€™t how my interpretation of the index would work. 100 would the highest interest in that countryā€™s history and 0 would be when interest is at its lowest in the countryā€™s history.

Arbitrary example: the U.S.ā€™s lowest interest was when it was searched 2,000 times in a week. The index of 0 would correspond to that value. The U.S.ā€™s highest interest is when it was searched 150,000 times in a week. This would be its 100 index. All other indexes would just correspond to somewhere between 2,000 and 150,000 weekly searches.

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mfb- t1_j25z06b wrote

You can try to interpret whatever you want, but that's not how Google's charts work.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j260j8k wrote

Ah, that is what you said, and I just ignored it. That makes sense. The range is from no search activity to highest amount of search activity for that country. Thank you.

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Urbanbew t1_j28tzdn wrote

It must be that 0 is literally 0 searches and 100 is the all time high

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LouisdeRouvroy t1_j26lnmi wrote

Also for Spain and France : summer vacation.

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veleros OP t1_j24o142 wrote

Source: Google Trends. Tools: Python and Canva

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Flat-Product-119 t1_j28dfcw wrote

Iā€™m curious why so many ā€œdevelopedā€ or might be more accurate to say western nations have an overall decline from 2004 to today? Iā€™m thinking of Switzerland, Wales, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Canada, USA as examples.

I say western might be more accurate instead of developed because South Korea and most of South America donā€™t seem to follow that overall downward trajectory.

Is it just illustration of countries where the internet became more ubiquitous sooner? And we were all just googling ourselves so to speak? And then as internet access became more widespread in other countries it sort of evened out? But the timeline only goes back to 2004, would have thought it needed to go back just a few years further to show that. Then again I live in the US and didnā€™t have internet in my house constantly until around 2005, not because it wasnā€™t available but because it just wasnā€™t part of my life when I was in my 20ā€™s and never at home and I hadnā€™t grown up with it always being there.

I donā€™t know, might not even be thinking about the chart trends in the right way or reading too much into it. Would be curious what others think or if they noticed the similar charts for some nations.

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LevynX t1_j27u2ml wrote

I'm pretty sure some of the previous spikes were also World Cup related, like Croatia's looks like 2018

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veleros OP t1_j27uyqf wrote

Some of them, yes. Brazil too.

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chickenman7 t1_j28b235 wrote

X axes should have ticks for world cup years if possible to make it easier to read.

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jredican t1_j28gx84 wrote

I guess everyone already knew what Canada is?

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cherry_picked_stats t1_j29oee2 wrote

Your data doesn't say what you claim it does.

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veleros OP t1_j29wocx wrote

What makes you say that?

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cherry_picked_stats t1_j2bafg9 wrote

the subtitle reveals part of the reason: only in half of the countries there was record search interest in 2022.

secondly: there is no way to be sure that it's predominantly World Cup which generated the record interest. For some of those countries it surely did, for others - we can't really be certain. And I'm quite comfortably sure that for Poland the cause for record interest has little to do with World Cup - it's mostly war in Ukraine.

What your data says is at most that World Cup, among other events, might generate increased global interest.

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veleros OP t1_j2bsegv wrote

The war on Ukraine has been going on for almost a year now. Also, many countries that did not have a record search during this world cup do have record search during other world cup editions like Uruguay, Brazil and Germany.

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Darks-Chaos t1_j28dstj wrote

Why does france and spain do so weird stuff

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veleros OP t1_j295fat wrote

There seems to be some seasonality

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T_that_is_all t1_j265zlf wrote

Well, what about the "World" Series?

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drnicko18 t1_j28ailn wrote

This is how you tell apart the important countries from those who are only googled during a world cup

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BatangTundo3112 t1_j24wngu wrote

The Americans don't give a shit or maybe they just goggle/d soccer? Idk

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veleros OP t1_j24zzfp wrote

This is global interest so it not only depends on the Americans

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