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Carla Hall leads US searches while paper planes top Hacker News

Carla Hall led the supplied U.S. search rankings for Nov. 9 with about 500-plus searches. A paper-airplane item drew the most votes on Hacker News, with 697 points.

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Carla Hall. (CC0)
Carla Hall. (CC0)

Carla Hall led U.S. searches on Nov. 9 with about 500-plus queries, with her Food Network business relationship ending, according to Google Trends, which carried reporting from The Sun.

Shinhan Bank headed South Korea’s search list with about 100-plus searches. The two countries had no search terms in common among their respective top 10 entries for Nov. 9.

The supplied rankings did not follow search volume: Thomas Massie placed ninth in the United States with about 20,000-plus searches, the largest count among the listed American terms.

“Bobby Taylor St Louis drummer” followed with about 10,000-plus searches, although it ranked tenth. Aryna Sabalenka and PlayStation each drew about 2,000-plus searches, placing third and fifth respectively.

Traffic drew about 1,000-plus searches in seventh place. Tony Stewart, “Mark Zuckerberg net worth 200 billion” and Vanderbilt each recorded about 500-plus, ranking fourth, sixth and eighth. Tiger placed second with about 200-plus.

In South Korea, Goldman Sachs and Shin-ae each drew about 1,000-plus searches, placing eighth and tenth. Funerals ranked second with about 500-plus searches.

Income per person, religious cults and the Republic of Korea Navy each recorded about 200-plus searches. They ranked sixth, seventh and ninth respectively.

Actor Shin Hyun-joon, “scarf man” and Google each drew about 100-plus searches, occupying third through fifth places. Their counts matched the approximate volume for first-place Shinhan Bank.

A paper-airplane folding item led the technology website Hacker News with 697 points and 124 comments. A discussion questioning whether Opus 5.5 had changed followed with 589 points and 408 comments, the website’s supplied front-page counts showed.

An item titled “Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2” placed third with 566 points and 273 comments. Those three entries each exceeded 500 points.

An announcement about the launch of Canada’s Real-Time Rail payment system ranked fourth with 374 points and 202 comments. An item about men suffering in silence in Canada followed with 277 points and 309 comments.

A comparison with Hacker News two years earlier received 223 points and 134 comments. An item about the price of a Raspberry Pi 5 computer with 16 gigabytes of memory drew 197 points and 164 comments.

An item about magenta solar panels and farming received 184 points and 100 comments. A discussion of malloc, a function programs use to allocate memory, followed with 180 points and 41 comments.

An item introducing the Muse Ember model completed the list with 144 points and 62 comments. All 10 supplied Hacker News entries had more than 100 points.

Google’s approximate search counts measure attention, not approval, popularity or quality, and the supplied order differs from the order by volume. Hacker News points are reader upvotes on one website, not a measure of importance.

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