“Coronavirus” isn’t the only term Americans are asking Google about more these days. In a possibly gloomy sign for the direction of the U.S. economy, search demand for “unemployment” and “recession” are both higher than ever.

In just the first 20 days of March, Alphabet’s (ticker: GOOGL) Google search interest in “unemployment” far exceeded volume in the entire month of July 2010, when the U.S. unemployment rate was at 9.5% and 14.6 million people were searching for work.

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