Google Trends and the Current Economic Turmoil

I stumbled on this beauty over at Google Trends the other day. I twittered it, but figured I’d follow up with a post here. The chart is the average search volume over the last 12 months for [How to File Bankruptcy].

How to File Bankruptcy on Google Trends

The slope of the chart has increased in each of the last three years. The snapshot is for just the last 12 months and has a very clear upswing for September. It’s a bit chilling.
Read the rest of this entry »