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The decline of culture (as a search term)

A neat auto-generated chart from Google Trends … is the downward trend suggestive that people are less interested in culture, or that, as the web becomes ever larger, people are realizing it’s just too vague a search term. The yearly slumps in searches correspond to midsummer and late December, times when Americans at least are too busy with other cultural activities to spend their time googling image Google Trends

Jul 21, 2008, updated Apr 8, 2025