1 | Google News Pages for "died suddenly" | ||||||||||
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2 | 9 December 2021 | ||||||||||
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4 | Month | Pages Indexed | 3-mth moving average | ||||||||
5 | Jan-19 | 2550 | |||||||||
6 | Feb-19 | 1290 | |||||||||
7 | Mar-19 | 2460 | 2100 | ||||||||
8 | Apr-19 | 2570 | 2,107 | ||||||||
9 | May-19 | 2510 | 2,513 | ||||||||
10 | Jun-19 | 1320 | 2,133 | ||||||||
11 | Jul-19 | 2590 | 2,140 | ||||||||
12 | Aug-19 | 2810 | 2,240 | ||||||||
13 | Sep-19 | 2870 | 2,757 | ||||||||
14 | Oct-19 | 1390 | 2,357 | ||||||||
15 | Nov-19 | 3070 | 2,443 | ||||||||
16 | Dec-19 | 2810 | 2,423 | ||||||||
17 | Jan-20 | 2970 | 2,950 | ||||||||
18 | Feb-20 | 1560 | 2,447 | ||||||||
19 | Mar-20 | 2880 | 2,470 | ||||||||
20 | Apr-20 | 3010 | 2,483 | ||||||||
21 | May-20 | 1590 | 2,493 | ||||||||
22 | Jun-20 | 3060 | 2,553 | ||||||||
23 | Jul-20 | 3080 | 2,577 | ||||||||
24 | Aug-20 | 2930 | 3,023 | ||||||||
25 | Sep-20 | 1470 | 2,493 | ||||||||
26 | Oct-20 | 3180 | 2,527 | ||||||||
27 | Nov-20 | 3160 | 2,603 | ||||||||
28 | Dec-20 | 3430 | 3,257 | ||||||||
29 | Jan-21 | 1720 | 2,770 | ||||||||
30 | Feb-21 | 3700 | 2,950 | ||||||||
31 | Mar-21 | 4110 | 3,177 | ||||||||
32 | Apr-21 | 2190 | 3,333 | ||||||||
33 | May-21 | 4840 | 3,713 | ||||||||
34 | Jun-21 | 5290 | 4,107 | ||||||||
35 | Jul-21 | 6750 | 5,627 | ||||||||
36 | Aug-21 | 3390 | 5,143 | ||||||||
37 | Sep-21 | 7790 | 5,977 | ||||||||
38 | Oct-21 | 4560 | 5,247 | ||||||||
39 | Nov-21 | 7140 | 6,497 | ||||||||
40 | Dec21 | 3000 | 4,900 | ||||||||
41 | Jan-21 | 215 | 3,452 |
1 | Method: |
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2 | https://www.google.com/ |
3 | Search "died suddenly" including quote marks for exact match |
4 | Select "News" |
5 | Click Tools / Recent / Custom Range |
6 | Select date range |
7 | Cick Tools to reveal "results" (pages indexed) |
1 | This spreadsheet was created after seeing social media chatter asking people to search the phrase "died suddenly". Some say there has been a notable increase in these types of stories in recent months. This appears to be a sure way of stumbling into confirmation bias. So I decided to collect some data. Using Google's search functions, we can see the number of pages Google has indexed that include the exact phrase "died suddenly". The data is filtered for "News" pages, that is pages from websites that Google considers to be legitimate news sites. The data is filtered for each month. |
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2 | There are plenty of potential problems with this data. Some that come to mind: - News stories of sudden death will be skewed toward high profile people - News stories of sudden death will likely be skewed toward younger people - Some of these stories are for animals (eg Orca at Seaworld) - English only, did not include other languages - Articles of this type may be atracting more clicks, so media companies are incentivized to produce more similar stories - This data based on Google News results as presented in Australia. Results may differ in other countries |