Google Trends Europe

The last couple days, Europe has been trying to claw its way back into the news cycle, but generally doesn't seem to have the same effect on the US stock market that it did in times past.  As a proxy for American interest in Europe, below is the google trends analysis for searches for Europe since 2004.  Search volume has steadily declined over that time period, and news reference volume has declined in 2012 after being relatively elevated since 2008.