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Explore trending searches by time range. Each Heads-up story has at least one relevant news source.
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Not enough stories in the past 48 hours, so showing the past 7 days.
What do these labels mean?
We compare Google’s trend start, or our first search observation when that’s unavailable, with the earliest qualifying linked article. Older background coverage stays in Sources.
- News-first
- The news came first. The first linked article appeared more than an hour before the search trend began.
- Search-first
- Searches came first. The search trend began more than an hour before the first news story we track.
- Same time
- Searches and linked news coverage began within an hour of each other.
Same time
Russell Brand
100,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
2 news outletsSearch-first
Trump links Iran to Republican losses in midterm vote
100,000+ searchesSearch growth +300%
6 news outletsSearch-first
Interest Rate News
100,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
2 news outletsTrending searches
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US Election Results500,000+ searchesAustralia vs Samoa200,000+ searchesWhat Time Is the Melbourne Cup Race200,000+ searchesMelbourne Cup 2026 Results200,000+ searchesUS Election200,000+ searchesMelbourne Cup Results200,000+ searchesMelbourne Cup Live100,000+ searchesAmerican Election100,000+ searchesEthan Brown Jockey100,000+ searchesFlorida Plane Crash100,000+ searchesSara Lee Ice Cream Delisted Supermarkets100,000+ searchesTonga vs New Zealand100,000+ searchesLimited linked coverage
New Zealand vs Tonga50,000+ searches · 0 news outletsJames Tedesco Dropped Kangaroos Squad20,000+ searches · 0 news outletsAbout the search figures and timing labels
Search figures use Google’s 48-hour measurement window. Timing labels compare qualifying linked article dates with the search timestamps; older background coverage is excluded; they do not establish cause or the first report anywhere.
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