In the US, searches including "football" exceed those including "porn" for most of the pro and college regular season, while those for "basketball" only exceed "porn" during March Madness, and those in "baseball" never exceed "porn."
I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out the timing of the annual spikes in searches for these terms. Note that the second annual peak for "flowers" is higher than the first.* Consider also what the difference in the duration of spikes suggests about the advance thought given to the different things.
* Comparison of searches for "flowers" and "lingerie" show a spike for "lingerie" that coincides with the first peak for "flowers" and not the second, which I think is probably a good thing for society.
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Your doing, perhaps, Jeremy?
Carly: That is absolutely hilarious. It could well be my doing.
RWS, there may be hope. I would bet that porn-seeking people don't necessarily use the search term "porn," but instead, use words like "free thumbnails" or "free streaming video." Of course, this is an empirical question. But I bet if you compiled all of those terms together, it'd make quite a spike.
Er, I mean, so I've been told.
Thanks for sharing this:
IN summer 04 and 05, people stopped typing Marxism into google--my personal favorite.
Very interesting timesuck, I am sure it will appear in a sociology article in the next few years as anecdotal evidence for something increasing or declining.
Carly and Jeremy: Compare 'snakes on a plane' with Freese. Now THAT'S hilarious!
anon 2:07:
Looks like the volume for "Marxism" just follows the academic calendar, with drops for both summer and winter breaks. The same pattern holds for marx, max weber, durkheim, sociology, etc.
I don't think JF had anything to do with that Cambridge spike: Try entering 'Jeremy Freese' by itself. Nada.
But there are kindred spirits here, Dude. Keep those peepers open!
I resent the insinuation that I google my own name more than I google "Snakes on a Plane."
Insinuation? Sinuous, maybe.
I see that only turkey exceeds porn out of the second four terms. Does that place fireworks, costumes, and flowers right along with baseball?
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