Watch 10 Years Of Top Trending Google Searches From 2010-2020 By State In 1 Minute

Video created by V1 Analytics

The video above shows the top trending search term by state for each day in the United States from January 7th, 2010 all the way to July 5th, 2020.

It’s interesting because it’s surprisingly rare for the top trending search term to be the same across all 50 states.

Here’s a sped up version:

In terms of the data itself, V1 Analytics says:

The map shows the highest trending Google searches for every state. Trending searches from 2010 to 2020 were taken from Google’s annual Year in Search summary.

Google Trends provides weekly relative search interest for every search term, along with the interest by state. Using these two datasets for each term, we’re able to calculate the relative search interest for every state for a particular week. Linear interpolation was used to calculate the daily search interest.

It should however be noted that ‘trending search term’ and ‘top search terms’ are actually slightly different. Top search terms actually stay pretty consistent and consist of words such as Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, Gamil, etc. Whereas trending search terms come from Google Trends. You see the current trending terms here.

Visual Capitalist makes the very good point that:

It’s important to remember that trending searches are measured by the increase of traffic, not just the overall amount of searches. Therefore, in states where it wasn’t trending, the word “coronavirus” may have already been a popular search term for a while, so the keyword didn’t see a sudden spike in interest like it did in other places.

They also compiled a list of term that trended unanimously which include:

• Adele (Feb 4, 2011)
• Born This Way (Feb 6 – Feb 23, 2011)
• Born This Way (Feb 28, 2011)
• Rebecca Black (March 22 – Apr 1, 2011)
• Game of Thrones (June 12 – June 27, 2011)
• Abortion (Nov 9, 2012)
• Frozen (Jan 10 – Jan 27, 2014)
• Samsung Galaxy S5 (Feb 28 – March 2, 2014)
• Blank Space (Jan 11 – Jan 13, 2015)
• Uptown Funk (Feb 26 – Mar 30, 2015)
• Caitlyn Jenner (June 5, 2015)
• Jurassic World (June 16 – June 19)
• Damn Daniel (Feb 26, 2016)
• Harambe (June 3, 2016)
• Finding Dory (June 20, 2016)
• Finding Dory (June 30, 2016)
• Finding Dory (July 6, 2016)
• Suicide Squad (Aug 4 – Aug 7, 2016)
• Harambe (Aug 24 – Sept 8, 2016)
• Brad Pitt (Sept 23 – Sept 26, 2016)
• Google Pixel (Oct 21, 2016)
• Google Pixel (Nov 24, 2016)
• Aleppo (Dec 14 – Dec 20, 2016)
• This Is Us (Jan 7 – Jan 10, 2017)
• This Is Us (Jan 23 – Feb 2, 2017)
• Super Bowl (Feb 8 – Feb 12, 2017)
• This Is Us (Feb 22 – Feb 24, 2017)
• Nintendo Switch (March 7 – March 11, 2017)
• Beauty and the Beast (March 21 – Apr 1, 2017)
• Fidget Spinner (May 7 – May 16, 2017)
• Despacito (June 17 – July 18, 2017)
• It (Sept 22, 2017)
• Harvey Weinstein (Oct 13, 2017)
• Kevin Spacey (Nov 3, 2017)
• Logan Paul (Jan 12 – Jan 23, 2018)
• Altered Carbon (Feb 6 – Feb 11, 2018)
• Fortnite (March 15 – March 29, 2018)
• Fortnite (May 4, 2018)
• Fortnite (July 21, 2018)
• Fortnite (Aug 5 – Aug 22, 2018)
• 7 Rings (Jan 17 – Feb 3, 2019)
• Jussie Smollett (Feb 21 – Feb 23, 2019)
• Captain Marvel (March 12 – March 22, 2019)
• Billie Eilish (March 27, 2019)
• Billie Eilish (March 30, 2019)
• Billie Eilish (Aug 24 – Aug 27, 2019)
• Joker (Oct 9 – Oct 29, 2019)
• The Mandalorian (Nov 20 – Nov 24, 2019)
• Baby Yoda (Dec 5 – Dec 14, 2019)
• Prince Harry (Jan 15, 2020 )
• Prince Harry (Jan 20, 2020)
• Jojo Rabbit (Feb 13 – Feb 15, 2020)
• Elon Musk ()
• Bubba Wallace (June 24, 2020)