Searching for turkey? You're not alone.

turkey graph

The picture above is from Google Trends, the fun tool that lets you measure the popularity of various keywords on the search site.

The blue line shows a spike in searches for "turkey" every year on Thanksgiving, followed by another smaller spike around Christmas; the red line, measuring the popularity of the search term "diet," shows that come January, many of us are looking to turn over a new leaf.

Thanks to Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped for pointing this out. Philipp found it on Reddit, where folks noted many other interesting search graphs:

Pokemon vs. Ron Paul vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John Edwards.

Jesus vs. porn.

Hangover (check out the New Year's spike).

About Machinist

Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist who regularly reports for National Public Radio, PRI's The World, The Economist and others. His forthcoming book is "The Internet of Elsewhere."

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