{"id":101090,"date":"2016-08-12T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101090"},"modified":"2016-08-12T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:33:39","slug":"this-is-what-south-africans-are-asking-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/101090-this-is-what-south-africans-are-asking-google","title":{"rendered":"This is what South Africans are asking Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the easiest ways to get into the South African people’s mindset is to check their search history.<\/p>\n

Fortunately (and maybe a tad scarily) Google collates all this data into a handy list, with every country’s most popular searches<\/a><\/strong> being broken down each day.<\/p>\n

With “municipal voting” trending two weeks in a row, it should be no surprise that current affairs continue\u00a0to dominate searches, with the Olympics taking the spotlight this week.<\/p>\n

Check out the top 10 trending questions on Google South Africa from this last week:<\/p>\n

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  1. How to start a blog<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. How many sports are in the Olympics?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. What is bipolar?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. What is climate change?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. How to stop coughing<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. What is lupus?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. How many countries are in the Olympics?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. What to do when you are bored<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. How to get rid of stretch marks<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. How to trace a number<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The 10 best extensions for Google Chrome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    The first country to ban Pokemon GO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is what South Africans are asking Google right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,1638,17971,21160,2163],"class_list":["post-101090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-google","tag-popular","tag-questions","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101092,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101090\/revisions\/101092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}