With the help of Google Trends we are publishing the top 10 searched for phrases (minus the sexy stuff of course) by South Africans on Google over the previous seven days.
Notes:
Thomas Madigage – Bafana Bafana assistant coach Thomas Madigage died in a car crash on Thursday evening
Die Antwoord – Lady Gaga vs. Die Antwoord. So will they be opening for her sometime soon?
yr.no – a weather service by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Windguru – another weather forecasting site
(For past data click here)
Fast rising searches
| thomas madigage | Breakout |
| die antwoord | +850% |
| bosses day | +250% |
| jub jub | +200% |
| yr.no | +90% |
| avon | +60% |
| felix baumgartner | +50% |
| soundcloud | +50% |
| windguru | +50% |
| cell c | +40% |
Top 10 search terms
1. facebook
2. youtube
3. facebook login
4. google
5. gumtree
6. gmail
7. news
8. yahoo
9. weather
10. fnb
11. games
12. absa
13. game
14. love
15. music
16. standard bank
17. news24
18. quotes
19. maps
20. whatsapp
21. samsung
22. unisa
23. sars
24. cars
25. images
* Google Trends is intended for general analysis of volume patterns.
* When you see Breakout listed instead of an actual percentage, it means that the search term has experienced a change in growth greater than 5000%.
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