Love, Racism, and Cookies: Google Trends in the United States

This data visualization depicts the Google Trends search charts for the words love, racism, and cookies since 2004. The chart shows search trends only for the United States.

Overall, searches for love and cookies are cyclical, with love spiking around Valentine's Day and cookies getting hot at Christmas. Racism searches are fairly consistent (other than the occasional spike), and it accounts for a much smaller portion of total Google searches than love and cookies.

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