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mfb- t1_j25p0bj wrote

100% is the highest search interest, 0 is zero search interest. Most countries don't have their search interest change by a factor 100.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j25x4cv wrote

That isn’t how my interpretation of the index would work. 100 would the highest interest in that country’s history and 0 would be when interest is at its lowest in the country’s history.

Arbitrary example: the U.S.’s lowest interest was when it was searched 2,000 times in a week. The index of 0 would correspond to that value. The U.S.’s highest interest is when it was searched 150,000 times in a week. This would be its 100 index. All other indexes would just correspond to somewhere between 2,000 and 150,000 weekly searches.

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mfb- t1_j25z06b wrote

You can try to interpret whatever you want, but that's not how Google's charts work.

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5ClearUrinations t1_j260j8k wrote

Ah, that is what you said, and I just ignored it. That makes sense. The range is from no search activity to highest amount of search activity for that country. Thank you.

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