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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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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by a SOLAR FLARE SEARCHING UP SOLAR FLARES - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.

Solar flares appear on the Sun's surface in different numbers at different times. A solar cycle is the amount of time that elapses between times of maximum (or minimum) solar flare activity. This period is approximately 11 years.

People are interested in solar flares because they can sometimes cause aurorae, as well as power outages and other similar issues. Hence people will search "solar flares" on Google to learn more about them. This trend somewhat matches the solar cycle since people will be more interested/concerned about solar flares during the times they are abundant and search them up more often. Randall notes that Google has existed for long enough to see the trend in searches for "solar flare" matching the solar cycle.

The title text comments that people usually Google "hangover cure" 14 hours after they search for cocktail recipes. This suggests that people decide they want cocktails, look for ways to make cocktails, make (and presumably drink) the cocktails, wake up with a hangover and look for ways to get rid of the hangover. However, Google Trends is not nearly precise enough for that,^{[citation needed]} so this is clearly a joke.

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Google Trends search traffic for "Solar Flare"

[A graph starting in 2005, peaking in 2013. It rises until 2024, where the graph cuts off. There is an arrow in between the two peaks labeled "11 years".]

[Caption below the panel:]

I like that Google has existed almost long enough for us to observe the solar cycle using Google Trends.

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