Georgia vs UNC, a matchup with North Carolina entering its first Power Five test after an unbeaten start, led US searches with about 1,000-plus on Nov. 13, Google said.
South Korea's list put its special prosecutor system first, with about 2,000-plus searches. The Federal Aviation Administration's nationwide ground stop led Hacker News with 1,122 points and also appeared among Korean searches.
The counts covered Nov. 13, 2026. Google's listed order differed from the approximate volumes: second-ranked Northern Iowa vs Michigan State drew about 5,000-plus US searches, exceeding the count beside the first entry.
Ohio high school football playoffs followed with about 1,000-plus searches, alongside coverage of third-week playoff scores. Cavaliers vs Heat drew about 500-plus, with Cleveland.com reporting that Cleveland would play without a frontcourt player because of injury.
Kelsey Grammer drew about 500-plus searches alongside news that he was considering running for president. North Carolina's basketball schedule also drew about 500-plus, although its accompanying headline concerned the university's women's soccer team reaching a conference final.
Mike Perry's return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship drew about 1,000-plus searches after he signed again more than five years after leaving. Grizzlies vs Pelicans and Merrimack vs Florida each drew about 200-plus.
Cargo ship hits bridge drew about 200-plus searches. Its accompanying news concerned the reopening of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge after a reported ship strike.
In South Korea, Cho Hyun drew about 100-plus searches alongside news of his China visit and comments about a possible US-North Korea summit. Myung Tae-kyun drew about 1,000-plus alongside coverage of an appeal involving political funding law.
Argentina vs Uruguay appeared separately in Korean and English, with about 2,000-plus and 1,000-plus searches respectively. Neither version appeared on the US list. FAA drew about 200-plus Korean searches alongside news of the flight halt.
IonQ drew about 100-plus searches alongside the company's appointment of Gary Merrill as chief financial officer and Thomas Austin as chief accounting officer. The Korean word for house drew about 500-plus.
The term chamgyoyuk, roughly meaning corrective discipline, drew about 10,000-plus Korean searches alongside coverage of a child abuse controversy. The Korean word for money drew about 5,000-plus alongside an editorial about government debt.
On Hacker News, an item about LibreOffice working throughout the year followed the FAA story with 801 points. An item about elevated errors affecting Claude's website, coding tool and platform received 482 points.
A 1960 item titled Doomsday, dated Nov. 13, 2026, received 435 points. An item about artificial intelligence deciphering mathematician Kurt Godel's notebooks received 305, followed by Nvidia hardware disappearing during shipment with 271.
An item about opening PowerPoint on an iPad received 256 points. Experiments with JEPA world models followed with 200, a technical proposal for the Haskell programming language with 171, and FM-1 Workbench with 170.
Google's approximate search counts measure attention, not approval, popularity or quality. Hacker News points are upvotes from one technology website's readers, not a measure of importance.
