Prior to this, due to a lack of search volume, Google Trends had no global search trend data. However, the day XKCD published a webcomic referencing the Q2010 there was a global traffic spike. Not only does this demonstrate the high volume of XKCD traffic, but it also tells us where the top readers are.
On Jan 23 XKCD posted a comic referencing skynet:
The impact of XKCD on skynet also had a noticeable impact on global search trends! The traffic spike on Jan 23 can be clearly seen in the United States search trends:
The XKCD effect is big and all comics are still released under the Creative Commons License. I wonder how much an XKCD shoutout costs? From the trends below, I suspect things might change.
2 comments:
That is simply amazing. I had no idea there was so much power there. I mean sure, some, but this level?
Simply amazing.
Splendid work!
- Mr. Joshua
http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/04/sword-fighting-girl.html
Wow, you seem to have noted it MUCH earlier.
I did a similar analysis here:
http://www.seopositions.net/digging-xkcd-effect/
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