Search for ‘eye pain after solar eclipse’ spikes after people stare at Sun | Tech News [Video]

If you’ve seen the people staring from the top of skyscrapers to see the eclipse, you’ll have seen most of them wearing those little cardboard eclipse glasses.

They are because even the tiny sliver of Sun visible in a total eclipse has the power to damage your eyes.

Most people like their eyesight enough to heed the warning, but some – including a former president – can’t resist the urge to stare directly at the awe of nature.

Perhaps that’s why searches for ‘painful eyes’ spiked on Google in the hours after North America was swept by darkness.

‘Why do my eyes hurt after looking at the eclipse,’ one search term read, while another asked ‘how to tell if the eclipse hurt your eyes’.

It’s not just a case of people ignoring warnings to stare directly at the Sun, either.

One breakout search term said ‘my eyes hurt after using eclipse glasses’.

Searches for ‘eyes hurt’ were at peak …