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Learn Through The Google Lens: Search Trends August 8-14

It’s Friday, which agency it’s fourth dimension for an A-through-Z of the week’s Google Search trends (see what I did there?)

Per-see … what is it?
As the skies lit upwards amongst the Perseid Meteor shower this week, at that spot were to a greater extent than than a million Google searches around the theme from people on the hunt for shooting stars. Along amongst questions on how to pronounce it (that would live something inwards the percentage of “percy-id”), people were bespeak where to lookout adult man as well as how to photograph the summertime show, amongst NASA promising upwards to a hundred meteors an hr if y'all got upwards early on enough. These meteors streak through the Earth’s atmosphere for our viewing pleasance every twelvemonth -- banking company lucifer out the annual spike inwards Google searches over the concluding decade for a tape of when nosotros spotted them.


Headlines from Communist People's Republic of China
Shocking images of devastation croak on to come upwards out of China’s northern port metropolis of Tianjin subsequently a massive chemic explosion Wednesday. This eye-witness video posted on YouTube past times Daniel Van Duren -- who says he was watching for shooting stars when the explosions happened -- has to a greater extent than than 60,000 views inwards 24 hours. With tidings outlets reporting that smoke is all the same rising from the industrial expanse where the blasts occurred, the million Google searches virtually Tianjin are focused on the “who, what, where, when, why” of the disaster.


This was the instant fourth dimension tidings from Communist People's Republic of China appeared inwards the world’s Hot Trends this week. China’s surprise conclusion to devalue its currency prompted an additional 50,000 searches Tuesday.

Because there’s evidently a solar daytime for everything
It was an awesome calendar week for left-handed middle children everywhere. Midweek was National Middle Child Day, where the give rising search on Google was for this meme, which pretty much sums it up. Then Th was Left Handers Day, prompting a spike of to a greater extent than than 100,000 Google searches. Looking at the give questions asked on Google around this of import solar daytime for southpaws, y'all all wanted to know how many people inwards full general are left-handed, as well as how many the U.S.A. presidents inwards item (hard to confirm, only the White House tweeted that President Obama is i of them). Which brings us, naturally, to the side past times side burning query on people’s minds: “Is Donald Trump left-handed?” File that i nether “August.”




It’s fourth dimension for an A-through-Z of the week’s Google Search trends (see what I did there?).