Google Announces Top 15 Gainers for the Week Ending February 27

Google Announces Top 15 Gainers for the Week Ending February 27

For U.S. Google users, the topic was skating during the final week of the Winter Olympics. Skaters past (Sarah Hughes) and present (Sasha Cohen, Shizuka Arakawa) dominated search queries over the past week along with (skating results). As might be expected, those other winter pastimes that require only the great indoors also saw a high volume of search queries. These included movies (Spiderman 3, Rent), TV shows (American Idol, Dancing with the Stars) – and the passing of celebrities (Don Knotts, Dennis Weaver). Headlines from other news realms led to many searches for the previously-obscure: (Wonderlic test) and (Dubai).

For breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search on Google. Below is a summary of the Google Zeitgeist results for the top 15 gainers on Google.com when comparing search queries that have risen by a significant percentage for the week of February 20-27.

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