'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running

Unfortunately that is not how those graphs are plotted.

That's in line with the Brexit vote in the UK.

"What is Brexit? What is the European Union?"

"Where's Joe? Kamawho? Doh I guess I'll just vote for Trump, I liked cheaper gas"

This has to be the biggest fumble of all time lmfao

I kind of understand why they want to get rid of elections. It feels a bit futile with this crowd.

This fact alone is so awesome about America. To be fair, I know very little about the UK government. I keep my voting strategy simple: whoever is proposing to get rid of first past the post closely followed by whoever is proposing more bicycle infrastructure. Failing that, whoever I think is going to lose.

There are tools that help you decide how to vote. Waiting until the day comes and searching Joe Biden is hilarious.

He didn't drop out tho. He was forced out by the uncommitted movement due to his genocide in Gaza

Most of those searches were Biden

I just got back from drowning my sorrows into a patty melt at a local bar I frequent. I normally go at night, so the daytime servers were new to me. Got a 40ish year-old lady server who was overworked because everywhere is understaffed now. I asked for some tea because I hadn't had caffeine yet, and she looks at me puzzled and says, "like hot tea?" And I say "Yes! Black please, but green is ok too if you don't have it." And she looked at me, still confused, and said, "Well i don't know what that is, but we have regular hot tea I can bring you with some hot water." After she left to put in my order, I couldn't stop thinking about this exchange.

This article gives me the same exact feeling. Whatever is happening that allows adult women SERVERS to be unfamiliar with one of the most popular drinks on the planet. Whatever allowed it so so many people didn't even realize Biden had dropped out...is the reason we lost to trump. It's the reason Democrat weren't able to break through on any issue. We were either talking to brick walls, or black holes. It's no ones fault but that servers that she was unaware of black tea. You can't force people to be intellectually curious or skeptical or even open minded. And these same people get to vote. And that's why we can't have nice things.

Not to defend the American public, who does not deserve any defense in the slightest, but...

I have a friend in advertising who specializes in Google SEO, and he pointed out this will include searches that contain the phrase as a subset of the search, such as "When did Joe Biden drop out" or "Why did Joe Biden drop out".

The spike when you zoom out to the past year:

There are uninformed voters for sure, but always be suspicious of stories that confirm your biases a bit too much.

This is the country with the nukes, subs, carriers, and troops in everybody else's backyard.

Europe and the rest of NATO, I think y'all need to figure your shit out without us. Make plans now.

Everyone keeps writing up/sharing/posting this article, but no one has any actual numbers of search results. The 100 line is just a representation of when it was searched over the past thirty days. It's not a representation of how many people actually searched it. That 100 mark could have just been 20 people for all we know.

It's not that uncommon for people to block all that stuff out for personal reasons. Lemmy itself has some users that intentionally filter out all political stuff from their feed. I don't agree with it, but there's a lot of people like that.

So that's why I had to vote for Biden as a write-in candidate!

Lmfao. America deserves this.

this could be very sensationalist because as far as I know, we have no idea what the absolute numbers are, the trend is measured in percentages:

Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.

So it's true that the peak is today, but that could be only a few people. Considering most of October the daily number was "0" (not enough data), I'm guessing the absolute numbers are fairly low. Anyone know how many datapoints google needs to publish data on trends?