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wslh on May 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Share Price and Google Employment Intere...

But, when I go to the correlate site and search for MSFT it returns:

# 0.8571msftr # 0.8282qqqq # 0.8167quote msft # 0.7909proquin # 0.7706wmt # 0.7612sbux # 0.7525slb # 0.7345fas 109 # 0.7340thestreet # 0.7334glw

What am I missing?

franksalim on May 28, 2011 [–]

Those are searches for the string MSFT. The article uses the share price data that the author uploaded. See how the chart is labeled "User uploaded activity for MSFT and US Web Search activity for google interview questions."

wslh on May 28, 2011 | [–]

Thanks.

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