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Google’s search by drawing feature

This is kind of amazing…you draw a graph and Google Correlate finds query terms whose popularity matches the drawn curve. I drew a bell curve, a very rough one peaking in 2007, and it matches a bunch of searches for “myspace”.

Google Correlate

This fits beautifully with the previous post about Vonnegut’s story shape graphs.