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by shalmanese 5976 days ago
How much of this shape is an artifact of how google is presenting the data? The right most categories are chunked in ever increasing increments.
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Yeah, I tried to address that in the end of the post. You'll notice links to two other site's data where the chunking is present but not nearly enough to make a horseshoe.

Without Google's chunking it would look different. but it actually makes it easier to see what's happening. Everyone will see a 1-log like function here (without chunking), what matters is the rate of decay, and that is well-captured in the chunking.