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2930. Google Solar Cycle

title text: From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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Plot with the X axis showing time from 2005 to 2024. The Y axis has no units or labels. Plot is labeled"Google trends search traffic for 'solar flare'"

The graph has a low line with a few small wiggles from 2004 to 2011, at which point is spikes and decreased in 2013, though it doesn't quite go back to the original baseline. There are smaller spikes in 2015 and 2018. There is a steadily rising trend starting in 2021 through the present. There is a mark showing 11 years from the peak in 2012 to 2023.

Lower caption: I like that google has existed almost long enough for us to observe the solar cycle using google trends.

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