{"id":21875,"date":"2018-12-22T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21875"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T17:12:38","slug":"near-me-searches-peak-on-weekends-in-search-of-mind-altering-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/near-me-searches-peak-on-weekends-in-search-of-mind-altering-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Near Me Searches Peak on Weekends in Search of Mind Altering Substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? Near Me searches peak on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>In October, I noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/\">Near Me searches<\/a>, while generally going up, had a distinct seasonal peaks in July and December. Actually more careful analysis shows those peaks to fall around the 4th of July and the week right after Christmas. \u00a0Both correspond with high travel periods.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that, when viewed over a shorter time \u00a0fame, it is obvious that they peak on weekends seems to confirm their most common use is likely associated with travel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21876\" style=\"width: 1113px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21876 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1113\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM.png 1113w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM-520x241.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.58.13-AM-1024x474.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1113px) 100vw, 1113px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each peak covers a two day week end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These queries viewed over the last 90 days reflect both travel and seasonal interests:<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21877\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1101\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM.png 1101w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM-520x167.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM-768x246.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-22-at-11.59.39-AM-1024x328.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I found this two year look back telling. It appears that folks were very interested in finding nearby early voting opportunities. Barring that they needed some psycho-active stimulation or escape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-20-13.20.20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21878\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-20-13.20.20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-20-13.20.20.png 563w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-20-13.20.20-290x200.png 290w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-20-13.20.20-520x358.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a>Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? Near Me searches peak on the weekends. In October, I noted that Near Me searches, while generally going up, had a distinct seasonal peaks in July and December. Actually more careful analysis shows those peaks to fall around the 4th of July and the week right after Christmas. \u00a0Both correspond with high travel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21880,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21875\/revisions\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}