{"id":2673,"date":"2014-08-20T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:31:20","slug":"facts-about-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/facts-about-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"7 interesting facts about the viral Ice Bucket Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ice Bucket Challenge has taken this country (and a little bit of Canada) by storm in the past two weeks, as the term went from non-existent to one of the top searches on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Here are some facts about the Ice Bucket Challenge, mainly from Google and Google Trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> The ALS Association reports<\/a> that as of today (Aug. 20), they have received $31.5 million in donations. That compares to $1.9 million during the same time span last year (July 29-Aug. 20). Those numbers include 637,527 new donors.
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2.<\/strong> According to Google Trends<\/a>, the first search for the phrase “ice bucket challenge” was on Tuesday, Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Thirteen days later, on Aug. 18 (the most-recent date shown on the data), searches for “ice bucket challenge” are still on the rise.
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4.<\/strong> The term “ice bucket challenge” has never shown up in Google Hot Trends<\/a>, but “ALS” was No. 4 on Aug. 10 and “ALS disease” was No. 5 on Aug. 18.
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5.<\/strong> There are 55.9 million Google search results for the term “ice bucket challenge,” a phrase that nobody was searching as recently as two weeks ago.
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6.<\/strong> The phrase is most-searched in Boston.<\/p>\n