Top Google Trends For August With Sarah Armstrong

Sarah Armstrong, an expert on Google Trends, joins the Mason Paine show to discuss the latest search trends in a variety of topics, including entertainment, culture, sports, technology, food, and odd news.

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August Google Trends Transcript

Mason Paine: August is coming to a close and Google trends expert. Sarah Armstrong joins to speak about this month's top search trends. Thanks for joining me, Sarah.

Sarah Armstrong: Thank you so much for having me.

Mason Paine: Tell me what's been happening for this month.

Sarah Armstrong: So in the month of August, we saw lots of different trends on Google, across entertainment, culture, sports, one that really caught my eye and we saw it explode on search.

Sarah Armstrong: Is this new game of throne, spinoff show, house of dragons. Have you heard about this?

Mason Paine: Absolutely. I know a lot of people are excited about it, but I have a confession. I haven't really watched game of Thrones, so I feel like I'm, I'm a little backlog.

Sarah Armstrong: I actually have the same confession and I keep that quiet around my friends because they can't believe I have gone all this time without giving into the peer pressure of diving into game of throne.

Sarah Armstrong: Maybe house of the dragon will do it for me. It's like a prequel of the show. So you go back many, many years to see how it all began. And I know folks are very excited about it and it's really popping off the search.

Mason Paine: Yeah, I think I can jump into this one. I, I think supposed to be 500 years from game of Thrones. So I'm like maybe I can jump in and not feel left behind.

Sarah Armstrong: Right? Exactly. We're getting all the context for game of Thrones. So a lot of folks are searching for, oh, are some of these game of Thrones characters going to be in this show? That seems unlikely since it's set so many generations before, but we'll see.

Mason Paine: what else has been happening? I'm sure that's not the only thing.

Sarah Armstrong: So something in the world of sports, pickle ball. Is a huge trend this month. This is a sport I had not heard of, but it's currently being searched at an all time high on Google. It's kind of a combination between tennis ping pong badminton, easier on the body form of tennis, as I would say, but we're seeing over 5000% increase in searches for things like pick a ball tips for beginners, pickle, ball paddles for sale folks wanting to find a court near them. So it's the hot new sport, right now.

Mason Paine: That is very misleading. I was hoping a pickle was involved.

Sarah Armstrong: I was like, oh, am I eating something? This sounds great. No, it is still an athletic event.

Mason Paine: I'm a little shocked that Kevin Durant wasn't, on there, because I see that, Serena Williams was her retirement.

Sarah Armstrong: Yeah, Serena Williams really came up in search interest this month with her retirement. I think people are so used to seeing her over so many years. so Serena Williams retiring from tennis that increased over 5000% and a lot of questions about her career. So when did she start tennis? When did she go? Pro when did you win her 23rd title? Lots of interest in her.

Mason Paine: she was definitely a powerhouse in tennis. It's gonna be kind of interesting to see who fills that void for her.

Sarah Armstrong: Totally. so those were definitely the big sports trends this month in more of the culture section, dating apps, online dating apps specifically that hit an all time high in search interest. So I guess love is in the air this month. Folks wanted to know how to start a conversation on a dating app,