Good news?

Good news?  As always, I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the Google unemployment index.  It's derived from counts of searches related to unemployment, so it's a very indirect measurement of something not easy to define in the first place (especially given the politically-motivated “adjustments” to published government data).  Whatever this index is (or isn't) measuring, it's dropped substantially in recent weeks, to levels not seen since mid-2008 (screen capture at right; click to embiggen).  Somehow that feels encouraging :)