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Is Iran about to experience a growth in product management?


Out of interest I have been looking into Google trends.  

Google keeps track of search terms across the world since 2004.  You can use this to look at relative popularity of certain phrases.  Where is it popular, is it trending, and how does it compare to other terms.

Naturally I typed in the term Product Management since 2004, you get an interesting data point where Iran is #1 for searching product management - exceeding even the US at #10

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