2011 - year of the meme!

Following up on my previous blog post regarding the popularity of the term "meme", it appears that 2011 may be the year of the meme!

The latest Google Trends results for "meme" are pretty spectacular:

History of "Meme" searches (with news information)

Here are the current Google Trends results for "memes":

History of "Memes" searches (with news information)

Web search (memes):

Image search (memes):

Web search (meme):

Image search (meme):

I am pleased. The term "meme" has gone viral! Memes appear to have a bright future.

Also, I seem to have chosen a good time to publish a book on the subject.

Note: 2010 was also declared to be the year of the meme.

Note: this article describes a confounding factor when searching for "memes".

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Footnotes:

Some more data:

History of "Meme" searches (cleaned up search data, but with no news)

History of "Memes" searches (cleaned up search data, but with no news)

History of "Meme" searches in the last year ((cleaned up search data, but with no news)

History of "Memes" searches in the last year (cleaned up search data, but with no news)

Lastly, the NYT search facility offers some news volume information. The following data was gathered from the NYT on 2011-11-29.

Memes since 1851: 4660.
Memes in the last 12 months: 2860.
Memes in the last 3 months: 1970.