Originally I wanted to find out what people were curious about and found trending search data. You can see what people are searching for by region, time frame and more. Naturally I started to get curious as to what some of the search terms were as some countries they weren't even in my language.. and most of all why people were searching for them. I remembered file system tree maps because I'm a geek and thought "wouldn't it be cool to see this data visualized by trend importance in a tree map?". So I built that and then sat and looked at every different country for hours because that's truly the best part of programming something. Then came categories, search intents, summaries and more and more as I dove head first into exploring what people are curious about around the world - trying to make it easier for both myself and others to learn and understand what is going on in the world without the bias many news website have, and what people really care about!

What's the Pulse?

The world's searches, mapped and explained.

The world's searches, mapped and explained.