Google Trends

Hurricane Michael

Below are two images of the Google Trends both chronologically and geographically of Hurricane Michael Google Trend searches.

Hurricane Michael is a hurricane that took place in the first 2 weeks of October, 2018.  The timeline image Google searches displays the timeline and peak dates of the key term “Hurricane Michael. It primarily affected the south-east coast. This was displayed in the geographically image showing the popular regions where the term “Hurricane Michael” was searched, as well.

 

Election

Below is an image of the Google Trend of the chronological timeline of the search “election.” With the elections for the U.S. being at a peak (about two weeks away from the time of writing this post), many people have been not only referring to news websites and articles, but also online searches to see citizen opinions. An interesting note is on Oct, 9, just one month shy of the official election date, there was a drastic spike in interest in Google searches.