Despite the football playoffs, NHL-related searches are outpacing NFL searches in January by a margin of 3:1. PEI, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are leading January searches for ‘hockey’ - all provinces without an NHL team. And with the help of the Google Maps API, Metro News assembled a quick snapshot of interesting Trend T idbits from across the country.
View Metro's Canadian Google Trends - January, 2013 in a larger map
Posted by Aaron Brindle, Google Canada
From hockey to Honey Boo Boo, Metro News has a great feature today looking back at Canada's Google Search Trends in January. Canada's Top 10 Trending Searches for January: 1. Idle No More 2. Jodie Foster 3. Lance Armstrong 4. NHL 5. Weight Watchers 6. Job Bank 7. NFL 8. Kim Kardashian 9. Canucks 10. Sunwing
Idle No More Searches for this protest movement peaked in mid-January, however it remains 2013’s fastest rising search term in Canada. Regionally, Canada's prairie provinces show the highest search volume, with Manitoba - where the Idle No More protests originated - taking the lead. The return of the NHL! After a long hockey-less fall where NFL searches outpaced NHL-related searches for the first time since we started collecting data, professional hockey is once-again surging on Google as regular (albeit shortened) season got underway. Despite the football playoffs, NHL-related searches are outpacing NFL searches in January by a margin of 3:1. PEI, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are leading January searches for ‘hockey’ - all provinces without an NHL team. And with the help of the Google Maps API, Metro News assembled a quick snapshot of interesting Trend T idbits from across the country. View Metro's Canadian Google Trends - January, 2013 in a larger map
Posted by Aaron Brindle, Google Canada
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