About Trends World
A map of what people are searching for, right now. It collects the single hottest topic in 176 countries and regions for the day and links every entry back to its original source.
Why this exists
Finding out what another country is talking about usually means opening its trending page or a local news site — different languages, scattered entry points, and plenty of regional blocks. This site collapses all of that into three moves: one map, one card format, one click to the source.
Where the data comes from
The site produces no content of its own. It aggregates and links out. Sources are tried in order, and every entry is labelled with the source that actually answered:
| Source | Coverage | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Google Trends daily searches | 122 countries and regions | Queries rising in volume that day, with 1–6 related news articles |
| Baidu hot search | Mainland China | Real-time hot search ranking (Google does not publish this region) |
| Wikipedia daily pageviews | A few regions | Most-read articles of the day |
| Bing News | The remaining ~51 countries | Same-day news retrieved by country name, ranked by relevance |
The first three measure search or reading interest. The last one measures news interest. Those are different things, so the source is always shown rather than blended into one number.
How often it updates
- Results are cached for 30 minutes, then refetched by a background queue;
- The server runs a refresh pass every 25 minutes, paced at 260–480 ms per request to stay under upstream rate limits;
- The page syncs silently every 10 minutes. On load it reads the cache first so the map paints immediately, then fills in any gaps.
Coverage and gaps
All 176 countries and regions currently return something, but coverage is uneven. Google only publishes daily search trends for 122 of them; the rest fall back to news or pageview data, which is coarser. A few places — North Korea, for instance — only have international coverage about them rather than genuine local interest. Read those with that caveat in mind.
What we don't do
- No accounts, no email collection, no sign-in;
- No cookies, no advertising scripts and no cross-site tracking — only cookieless, aggregate visitor counts from Cloudflare Web Analytics;
- No full-text reproduction — only headlines, with a link to the original;
- No external images are loaded or mirrored on the page.
How it's built
The backend is a dependency-free Node.js service: its own fetch queue, disk cache and proxy tunnel, with no database. The frontend is plain JavaScript with no framework and no build step. The world map is drawn in the browser from a local GeoJSON file into SVG — no map tiles, no CDN. Apart from system fonts and the Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon, the site makes no external requests.
Known limitations
- Google publishes its daily trends only a few times a day, so "today" means the most recent list, not a live feed;
- Smaller countries use news interest in place of search interest, which is not directly comparable to larger markets;
- A handful of outbound publishers reject non-browser requests; normal clicks are unaffected;
- All content rights belong to the original sources — this site only indexes them.
Contact
Questions or suggestions: hello@trends-world.example. For security issues, please use the channel listed on the security page.