Google Trends: Astronomy vs. Astrology

[CVBrassil]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Astronomy,+Astrology

Google Trends is a cool underused feature that allows you to search for two items, and it compares which are being searched for more on a graph. It also shows which are showing up more in news sources in another graph (on the bottom), via Google News.

Its clear that astrology is searched for quite a bit more than astronomy. These are general terms of course and with something more specific you would find different results, but I think the general message should get through on what the public is searching for more.

Of course, astronomy shows up more in news results, but not even by a large margin.

Thoughts?

 

[Marcus]

It's interesting to note that around every new year people seem to be consulting their mumbo jumbo charts.

 

[Giliell]

Took me years to tell one thing from the other just by the name because it didn't make sense that something with the word "logos" in it should be something completely made up :lol:

But it doesn't surprise me.
You need some education to understand anything about astronomy, but elementary school reading will be sufficient to read a horoskope