Many of you will already know about Google Trends, a service of Google that lets you get a sense of the relative frequency of searches. Here is a graph of searches for "cold fusion" and "LENR".
http://goo.gl/4lBseu This graph may be a little disappointing at first, because the impression is that searches are going down. I think this impression is mistaken, however, because "Cold Fusion" is also the name of a once-popular Web site development platform that is now in senescence. "LENR," which has no competitors for meaning that I am aware of, is probably better graphed alone: http://goo.gl/8J63BX An interesting detail about the second graph is the spike at January 2012. I suspect that is not the date of something that happened, but instead people catching up with Rossi's October 2012 demo. If true, that suggests there is a significant lag before breaking news is fully converted into Google searches. To get a sense of the absolute number of searches we're talking about here, consider this graph of "Kate Middleton" (who just had a child) versus "LENR": http://goo.gl/sDl9je What the second graph tells us is: Kate Middleton 100, LENR 0. So even though searches for LENR have been increasing since May 2007, there is still a long way for them to go. So we're at the very beginning (if you didn't already know that). Eric
