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Today's top searched stories with at least three news sources. Pick one to see why people are searching and ask a follow-up.
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Showing stories from 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 article linked to the story.
- News-first
- The earliest linked article was published more than an hour before the recorded search trend start.
- Search-first
- The recorded search trend start was more than an hour before the earliest linked article.
- Same time
- The recorded search trend start and earliest linked article were within an hour of each other.
Search-first
Democrats won control of both the US House and Senate.
50,000+ searchesSearch growth +800%
3 news outletsNews-first
Patrick Stewart
50,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
6 news outletsNews-first
New Zealand and India met in the first ODI of their series.
10,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
3 news outletsNews-first
Michael Laws
10,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
4 news outletsSame time
All Blacks head of security Logan Cadwallader died after a medical event at the team hotel.
10,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
2 news outletsNews-first
New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose to 5.7%.
10,000+ searchesSearch growth +1000%
5 news outletsAbout the search figures and timing labels
Search figures use Google’s 48-hour measurement window. Timing labels compare available linked article dates with the search timestamps; they do not establish cause or the first report anywhere.
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