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pygy_ on June 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peak Facebook

Using "facebook.com" as a search keyword yields a strange result: there is a steady rise until the first days of January 2010 when a sudden drop of ~50% occurs. From then on, the curve remains flat.

Any idea of what happened?

http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook.com&sa=N

Emore on June 17, 2011 [–]

A guess: some major browser's search bar started to parse "facebook.com" as a domain rather than a search term?

pygy_ on June 17, 2011 | [–]

That was my guess too, but which one?

redthrowaway on June 17, 2011 | | [–]

I'm thinking FF 3.6, which came out January 21st. [1] If you zoom in on 2010, you'll see the drop happens around the end of January. [2]

[1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/

[2] http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook.com&ctab=0...

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