Google continues to expand its palette of random bells and whistles (just wait for Google Gyno!), most recently launching its Google Trends Project, which allows users to track the popularity of search terms by time and location. Wanting to better understand the zeitgeist, we entered two words we think are fundamental to modern life: media and porn. Below, the search volume for each term since 2003:

And search volume specific to New York:

Maybe it's just us, but the results are a little too close for comfort. Shouldn't we all be looking for sex by a landslide?

Google Trends [via Gothamist]

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