I Don’t Know What’s Going On is a collection of writers who give their thoughts on the top trending googles of the day. We use this as an exercise for writing as well as keeping up with current events. Hopefully, you readers like it too.
How to Read a Post
We authors are going to write as if you know the context of the search. This makes the posts feel more like a conversation than a news outlet.
Each post will contain the writing of each of the authors. Whether separated into columns or headings, each writer will give their two cents on the chosen topic of the day.
Methodology
To find the day’s trending searches, we use Google Trends. Through the Trending now feature, we filter searches by these requirements:
- United States
- Past 24 hours
- All categories
- All trends
- By relevance
At the top of each daily post we will list the top three searches from these filters. In striving for consistency, we try to collect the trending searches at 1:00 PM MST. But post times may vary with authors schedules.
If all of an items search volume was in the previous day, or was already covered in the previous day’s post, we may strike it from the list and move on to the fourth or fifth options, for example:
- sample item
mostly from yesterday- a top search
- breaking news
Out of these three searches, each author will pick out one of them (or multiple, if the right mood strikes) to write about. The chosen topic will be listed by the search title.