well, google coronavirus searches in China, specifically Hubei province, spiked in September of 2019.
Science is a term being twisted out of its original context. if people keep doing that, its going to be a pejorative.
Science is a term being twisted out of its original context. if people keep doing that, its going to be a pejorative.
For Google searches to spike, information about the disease would need to be public knowledge. And at that point, you wouldn’t need Google search traffic to prove anything.
Also: Google is blocked in China, isn’t it?
Also, do you have a source?
I'll leave it for readers to determine whether it holds up.
It was a search for 'coronavirus' in china between 8/1/2019 and 01/01/2020. It showed a spike of 100 on September, 21, 2019 and another in December of 2019. However, this search no longer works. All of the traffic came from Hubei Province.
what gnulinux said about '90' searches is wrong. This is 'Google Trends is a search trends feature that shows how frequently a given search term is entered into Google's search engine relative to the site's total search volume over a given period of time.'
IAmEveryone comments are just all wrong. this doesnt mean 'it would have had to been public knowledge'. It means searches on google were performed on that term, specifically in Hubei Province. and yes, google is 'blocked' in china. That doesnt mean its not used there, just less often.