Seems they had an error with how it calculated? The spike exists for everything I can find that existed back then, but the spike seems relative to the total, so maybe they accidentally counted 1 search as 2 or something? Maybe it was an issue with their use of ajax that caused 2 search requests to be fired off to google? Maybe the data isn't wrong, maybe something caused extra searches?
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Seems they had an error with how it calculated? The spike exists for everything I can find that existed back then, but the spike seems relative to the total, so maybe they accidentally counted 1 search as 2 or something? Maybe it was an issue with their use of ajax that caused 2 search requests to be fired off to google? Maybe the data isn't wrong, maybe something caused extra searches?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=newgrounds,+reddit,+paul+grah...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937589 look at the drilldown results, does it still show a spike?