{"id":119281,"date":"2017-07-22T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119281"},"modified":"2017-07-21T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:10:41","slug":"top-trends-on-google-south-africa-this-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/119281-top-trends-on-google-south-africa-this-past-week","title":{"rendered":"Top trends on Google South Africa this past week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top Google searches in South Africa this week included several hoaxes and fake news stories alongside Wimbledon,\u00a0Game of Thrones, and Mandela Day.<\/p>\n<p>Fake news such as Rowan Atkinson\u2019s death, rumours that Oscar Pistorius had committed suicide, and MiWay circulating a racist e-mail to its agents featured prominently in South African search this week.<\/p>\n<p>However, Game of Thrones, Roger Federer, and Mandela Day saw much greater search volumes than any of the fake news stories.<\/p>\n<p>Google processes more than 40,000 search queries every second. Google trends data is updated hourly and is available on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Trends website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Search trends in South Africa tend to be news and sports-driven, Google South Africa noted. People search for things they hear or see on the news, and sports search terms trend several times a week, on average, every week.<\/p>\n<p>The following searches trended in South Africa this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cRowan Atkinson dead\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(a hoax) trended on Saturday with over 5,000 searches.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cGame of Thrones season 7\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(50,000+ searches) trended on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cRoger Federer\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(50,000+ searches) trended on Sunday after he\u00a0won the Wimbledon Men\u2019s Championship and became the first male tennis player to win 19 Grand Slam titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMandela Day\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(50,000+ searches) trended on Monday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cOscar Pistorius Latest\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(10,000+ searches) trended on Monday after rumours circulated he had committed suicide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMorata\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(10,000+ searches) trended on Thursday after footballer Alvaro Morata revealed why he decided to leave Real Madrid for Chelsea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMiWay\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(2 000+ searches) trended on Friday after the screenshot of a hoax internal mail circulated on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/220778-visit-the-international-space-station-in-google-street-view.html\">Visit the International Space Station in Google Street View<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top Google searches in South Africa this week included several hoaxes and fake news stories alongside Wimbledon,\u00a0Game of Thrones, and Mandela Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"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":[9],"tags":[1638,24809],"class_list":["post-119281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-google","tag-south-afrioca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281\/revisions"}],"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=119281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}