Ask HN: Top Searches “Burger King, Whopper, Lincoln Navigator, Samsung Galaxy”

1 points by iliconvalleys 9y ago ↗ HN

Hi, I'm designing a dataset related to trending terms on Google. Are there other kinds of ways to acquire data on trending terms? I'm actually quite surprised and skeptical that the terms in the title are the world most popular search terms being searched for at this moment in time.

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blowski 9y ago ↗

I think trending in that context means 'traffic for these terms is much higher than usual' rather than 'these are the most popular search terms'.

At a guess, the most searched for terms will be dominated by perennial brand keywords like 'Facebook' and 'CNN', so rarely change.