Google trends

Load shedding, elections and the Rugby World Cup: what SA searched for in 2019

With the year and decade coming to an end, Google revealed what South Africans spent their time searching for over the past twelve months,…

BLF, ANC and EFF most popular parties on Google after 2019 elections

Google search trends have revealed what South Africans have been querying 48 hours since the 2019 election results were announced by the IEC. Along…

Update: EFF remains a hot topic on Election Day, Google reveals

Update, 5pm: South Africans have gone from wondering where their voting stations are, to the results of the 2019 Elections. They’re jumping the gun…

Enjoy Eskom’s growing load shedding crisis visualised by Google

You’re probably sick to death of hearing about Eskom’s woes and load shedding, the government’s floundering attempts to fix the ailing enterprise, and what…

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters tops US Google Search after Tebow engagement

On Thursday former NFL player Tim Tebow announced his engagement to South Africa’s former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters. Tebow broke the news on Instagram…

Google searches for South Africa spike after Fox News video, Trump tweet

Google Searches for South Africa has spiked after Fox News ran a segment, anchored by Tucker Carlson, addressing the country’s land expropriation debate. The…

5 interesting Google Search blips after the World Cup semi-finals

So… my World Cup predictions are out the window. France will play Croatia in the final after the teams beat Belgium and England respectively….

The United States still thinks Mexico’s in the World Cup

The United States isn’t the world’s foremost footballing nation — unless you’re talking about their variant using a rugby ball and “end zones”. But…

Wimbledon 2018: the UK has no idea what colour tennis balls are

Google Trends can reveal the brilliance and stupidity of human beings on the internet, and as Wimbledon fever sweeps across the UK, some are…

England asks Google if England can win the World Cup

England — especially England — just can’t believe how well its football team is doing at the World Cup. After smacking Panama 6-1 during…

Robbie Williams (and his World Cup middle finger) spikes Google Search traffic

If you were expecting Will Smith to open the 2018 World Cup in Russia this evening, don’t worry, we were too. Instead a British…

Fanny pack searches are trending so hard in 2018 (but why?)

Like movies and music, fashion is a cyclical internet culture phenomenon. As the online world influences it, fashion itself fuels sentiment online. And as…

The Shape of Water bested by Get Out, Dunkirk on Google Search

The internet and the big arts academies of the world don’t always agree. We’ve seen this with the Grammys this year, and now the…

Kim Jong Un and ‘dotard’ Trump get the internet excited about words again

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may be engaged in a game of nuclear table tennis, but at…

Nambia vs Namibia: how a fictional country became more popular than a real one

You can always trust US President Donald Trump to say something controversial, whether it be on Twitter, or at the UN General Assembly. But…

Irma, Harvey and Google: analysing the hurricanes’ search impact

Tropical weather is seemingly all social media users in the western hemisphere can talk about this week. With three named storms currently swirling in…

Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather: who wins the social media bout?

There’s a big fight happening this weekend between two men who really, really want to punch each other. MMA poster boy Conor McGregor will…

Google Trends charts the UEFA Champions League teams ‘winning on search’

The UEFA Champions League quarter finals kick off this week, with the first matches taking place tonight. But who’s going to win the most…

Budget Speech 2017: Google Trends highlights South Africa’s concerns

Google is an integral part of the internet and, well, searching for information on the internet. So when you apply the search giant’s extensive…

Google Search shows how much SA cares about ‘Donald Trump’

Google News Labs’ US Elections hub is about as interesting as the elections itself. Graphing its slew of data garnered from daily search habits,…

Oscar Pistorius: social media slams sentence, global search spikes

After three years of back-and-forth legal battles, Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six-years behind bars for shooting and murdering Reeva Steenkamp. The legal…

The Greatest dead at 74: the internet pays tribute to Muhammad Ali

Legendary fighter Muhammad Ali has today died in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 74. The Kentucky-born boxer with the golden gloves and the memorable quotes succumbed…

Netflix is bringing 21 classic Studio Ghibli movies to Africa

No load shedding on Tuesday despite 1100 MW of outages on Monday

Huawei wil replace Google Maps with TomTom following new deal

Nigerian fintech Flutterwave raises $35m Series-B round

Stellenbosch based Skynamo secures $30m investment from Five Elms Capital

SA email protection startup Sendmarc nets investment from Kalon Venture Partners

Garmin’s new tactical smartwatch has a privacy-focused ‘stealth mode’

Samsung is readying new Galaxy A phones that could arrive in SA

Latest Samsung Galaxy S20 range leak unveils almost all specs, features

Audi’s AI:ME could be the company’s future A2

BMW confirms the iX3’s battery and power details

The true cost of Audi’s electric car strategy