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What the world is talking about

Measured attention, not opinion polls: what people search for (Google Trends), what they read (Wikipedia page views) and what the news covers and how (GDELT, every 15 minutes). For what people think, see the opinion surveys.

Today

Searching

Google Trends

Google Trends has no worldwide daily feed: pick a country.

Reading

Wikipedia top pages · 13 Nov 2026
  1. Jensen Huang en in 11 countries 727.5k
  2. .xxx en 486.9k
  3. Colette Kress en in 9 countries 279.2k
  4. Nvidia en in 8 countries 252.9k
  5. Chris Van Hollen en 204.9k
  6. Piracy en 202k
  7. Alice Huang (executive) en in 7 countries 200k
  8. Sam Hartman en 191.6k
  9. Mauricio Pochettino en in 3 countries 172.2k
  10. List of highest-grossing Indian films en 171.3k
  11. Deaths in 2026 en in 3 countries 136.9k
  12. Avril Lavigne en in 6 countries 120.9k
  13. Russell Brand en in 5 countries 112.8k
  14. Dan Hicks (sportscaster) en 107.5k
  15. Anthony Clark (actor) en 105.8k
  16. David Walliams en in 3 countries 97.7k
  17. Lisa Su en in 4 countries 97.3k
  18. Hannah Storm en 96.4k
  19. Jailer 2 en 94.5k
  20. Jensen Huang spying scandal en 94.2k

In the news

GDELT · outlets in World · last 2 days
  • Leader 46.1k
  • Manmade disaster implied 42.9k
  • General government 40.8k
  • General health 37.3k
  • Education 34.7k
  • Medical 34.6k
  • Msm 32.5k
  • Affect 30.9k
  • Security services 23.6k
  • Armedconflict 23.4k
  • Kill 22.2k
  • Legislation 18.3k

People

Sean Duffy · Donald Trump · Markwayne Mullin · Vladimir Putin · Los Angeles · Abu Dhabi · Jensen Huang · Steve Arroyo · Las Vegas

Organisations

United States · White House · Aviation Administration · Reuters · Microsoft · Young · Associated Press · Instagram · Google · Facebook · Spacex · United Airlines

"new" = first day in the trending list; "N days" = trending on N of the last 14 days. Traffic is Google's rounded search-volume band. GDELT themes are machine-tagged from articles published by outlets in the country (in any language); people and organisations are extracted automatically and can be noisy.

Rising

New in the lists today.

  • Colette Kress
  • Piracy
  • Alice Huang (executive)
  • Sam Hartman
  • Avril Lavigne
  • Dan Hicks (sportscaster)
  • Anthony Clark (actor)
  • Hannah Storm

Evergreen

In the lists on most recent days (searches: 5+ of 14, pages: 10+ of 30).

  • .xxx 26d
  • Deaths in 2026 30d
  • Russell Brand 10d
  • Jailer 2 29d
  • XNXX 12d
  • Ansel Adams 29d

Topics in the news · World

Share of news by topic

% of articles from outlets in this country, per day (GDELT GKG)

Topics are keyword groups over GDELT's GKG themes; an article can be in several. Collection started in Oct 2026, so the history fills up from there.

Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

This week vs the world

% of articles, last 7 days
TopicHereAll countriesMore
Crime22.9%22.9%
War & conflict20.3%20.3%
Jobs12.8%12.8%Jobs & cost of living →
Energy11.0%11.0%Energy →
Elections9.5%9.5%Politics →
Protest7.8%7.7%Politics →
Migration3.6%3.6%Population & migration →
AI2.5%2.5%
Cost of living2.4%2.4%Economy →
Housing2.0%2.0%Economy →
Climate1.8%1.8%Energy →
Health1.1%1.1%Population & migration →
Trade0.2%0.2%Economy →
Robotics0.1%0.1%Robotics →
Self-driving0.0%0.0%Self-driving →
Source: The GDELT Project · to 14 Nov 2026

Around the world

Elections: share of the news, last 7 days

By the country of the outlet, not of the story. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = more negative words). Countries with fewer than 50 (tone) or 200 (topic) articles in the week are left grey. Click a covered country to open its trends.

Source: The GDELT Project

Elections across countries

% of each country's news articles per day (GDELT GKG)
Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

Everywhere vs local

Read everywhere

Wikipedia articles in the top lists of 3+ countries on the latest day.

  1. Jensen Huang11 countries · 627.7k views
  2. Colette Kress9 countries · 199.7k views
  3. Nvidia8 countries · 213.4k views
  4. Alice Huang (executive)7 countries · 126.4k views
  5. Avril Lavigne6 countries · 109.9k views
  6. Russell Brand5 countries · 93.8k views
  7. Lisa Su4 countries · 57.9k views
  8. Deaths in 20263 countries · 97.7k views
  9. Mauricio Pochettino3 countries · 70.2k views
  10. David Walliams3 countries · 56k views
  11. Ebenezer (2026 film)3 countries · 55.5k views
  12. The Body (TV series)3 countries · 43.2k views
  13. Archive of Our Own3 countries · 39.3k views
  14. Grand Theft Auto VI3 countries · 26.8k views
  15. UEFA Nations League3 countries · 24.2k views
  16. Wild Horse Nine3 countries · 16.3k views

Only here

Top pages in World that no other tracked country has in its list.

  1. .xxx486.9k views
  2. Piracy202k views
  3. List of highest-grossing Indian films171.3k views
  4. Jailer 294.5k views
  5. Scene (2026 film)82.4k views
  6. Cam Skattebo77.9k views

Tech discussion: Hacker News front page

Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API · front page, refreshed every 30 minutes.

Related

Sources: Source: Google Trends (hourly per country, every 3 h per region) · Source: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews API (daily top lists; language editions for the world view) · Source: The GDELT Project (15 min) · Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API. Not included: Reddit and YouTube (their APIs need keys), X (no open API), China's Google Trends and per-country Wikipedia lists (not published).

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