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Contrary to the current explanation, it appears you can search for [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=Cocktail%20recipe,Hangover%20cure&hl=en cocktail recipe searches vs hangover cure searches] at a sub-daily resolution. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.103|108.162.210.103]] 07:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
Contrary to the current explanation, it appears you can search for [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=Cocktail%20recipe,Hangover%20cure&hl=en cocktail recipe searches vs hangover cure searches] at a sub-daily resolution. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.103|108.162.210.103]] 07:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
:As of my check, just now, I find it very funny that the (current) state-map attached to that result seems to indicate that every state trend predominantly is for searching for cocktails, between the two options. Except for Wyoming, which is solidly the one and only "hangover" state. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.115|172.70.90.115]] 10:35, 9 May 2024 (UTC)~
 
:As of my check, just now, I find it very funny that the (current) state-map attached to that result seems to indicate that every state trend predominantly is for searching for cocktails, between the two options. Except for Wyoming, which is solidly the one and only "hangover" state. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.115|172.70.90.115]] 10:35, 9 May 2024 (UTC)~
::It's likely because there's only like 7 people living there. Looking worldwide, Nigeria is the only "hangover country". [[User:Tcf|Tcf]] ([[User talk:Tcf|talk]]) 13:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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::It's likely because there's only like 7 people living there. [[User:Tcf|Tcf]] ([[User talk:Tcf|talk]]) 13:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
:::And Russians drink but don't have hangovers. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.185|172.69.22.185]] 16:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
::::They do. But they probably don't need to search for cure as they already know. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 19:30, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
  
 
Google solar cycle? Ok. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.143|172.68.58.143]] 13:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
Google solar cycle? Ok. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.143|172.68.58.143]] 13:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
If cocktail and hangover cure searches are both purely diurnal, it would be difficult to tell which comes first. But there's actually a larger cycle of the daily peak volumes. When you compare these two graphs, you can see that the hangover line follows the cocktail line. This strongly suggests a cause and effect. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 14:13, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
 
Is it a coincidence that a major solar flare occurred on the date of this comic, for which NOAA issued a geomagnetic storm warning for Friday through Sunday? [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 19:57, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 
  
 
==Spike of March 8, 2012==
 
==Spike of March 8, 2012==
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::...we'd still be repairing the infrastructure damage in 1860? ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.4|172.71.242.4]] 04:58, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
::...we'd still be repairing the infrastructure damage in 1860? ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.4|172.71.242.4]] 04:58, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
:::...our entire society as we know it would've collapsed long ago. [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 12:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
:::...our entire society as we know it would've collapsed long ago. [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 12:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
::::Maybe it did and we actually had the internet in 1859 but the solar storm was so bad that it wiped out any traces of it as well as people's memories of it. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.22.72|172.71.22.72]] 19:21, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
:::::Dementia Storm? Woah... [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 20:14, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
  
 
==Correct URL?==
 
==Correct URL?==
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:I second this comment, and wish to ask what exactly Randall's settings were on, because "worldwide" and "2004-present" don't match the comic.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.63|162.158.114.63]] 13:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
:I second this comment, and wish to ask what exactly Randall's settings were on, because "worldwide" and "2004-present" don't match the comic.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.63|162.158.114.63]] 13:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
::Neither do "United States" and "2004-present". For future record, the worldwide graph has a peak of 100 in 2011 and other peaks in the low dozens in 2014, 2017, 2021, and a mere 25 in 2024. [[User:Tcf|Tcf]] ([[User talk:Tcf|talk]]) 13:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 
::Neither do "United States" and "2004-present". For future record, the worldwide graph has a peak of 100 in 2011 and other peaks in the low dozens in 2014, 2017, 2021, and a mere 25 in 2024. [[User:Tcf|Tcf]] ([[User talk:Tcf|talk]]) 13:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
:::The actual peak is in March 2012, not 2011. If Randall's "y axis" is set to 2005, then the peak is correctly shown, and the "11 year gap" appears to be 2013-2024.  But the Y-axis doesn't appear to be to scale, at least not a linear one.  But hey, it's a freehand-drawn comic, so I'm okay with a little imprecision.  [[Special:Contributions/172.68.26.25|172.68.26.25]] 16:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 

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