Liu Yandong topped the United States search list on Oct. 28 with about 200-plus searches, alongside news of her reported death, according to figures published by Google Trends.
South Korea's list was led by Jin Sung-joon, with about 500-plus searches. None of the terms appeared in both countries' top 10 lists for Oct. 28.
The headline accompanying Liu's name carried news of her death from Xinhua's newspaper group website. Chosun Ilbo reported that Jin, the parliamentary defence committee chairman, had been refused a US visa.
In the United States, “spain train crash” ranked second with about 500-plus searches. CNBC carried news of deaths in a high-speed train crash in Spain, citing local media.
“Kyle whittingham” ranked third with about 200-plus searches, alongside an MLive.com headline about Tommy Carr's difficulties in his first Michigan start. “Alexandra eala” followed with about 1,000-plus searches.
Yahoo Sports linked Eala to a story about her connection with another tennis player through their Filipino roots. “Mega millions winning numbers” ranked fifth with about 100-plus searches, alongside results for the Oct. 27 drawing.
“Ms now” and “cancer” followed with about 100-plus and 200-plus searches, respectively. “Emari demercado” and “tracy duhon” each drew about 100-plus, while “zimbabwe vs india” drew about 200-plus.
In South Korea, “jūpjūp,” a term used for leftover apartment subscriptions, ranked second with about 200-plus searches. The accompanying Korea Economic Daily headline concerned apartments offered in Gwacheon.
“Kashima Antlers vs Pohang” ranked third with about 2,000-plus searches. “Great Escape” followed with about 200-plus, alongside Yonhap news that Tving would release “Great Escape: Urban Legends” in December.
“Administrative fines” ranked fifth with about 100-plus searches, alongside MBC news of penalties against Google and Apple over in-app payments. “AI bubble” followed with about 200-plus searches, and “IonQ” had about 100-plus.
“Property” ranked eighth with about 2,000-plus searches, alongside news of court proceedings involving Choi Tae-won and Roh So-young's property division. “Security” drew about 1,000-plus, alongside news of a Daishin Securities customer data breach.
“Choi Won-tae” completed South Korea's list with about 200-plus searches. Its accompanying YTN headline concerned a baseball matchup.
On Hacker News, Ghostty 1.4 led the supplied front-page list with 1,034 points, followed by an item alleging a concealed US surveillance court ruling with 941 points.
Genie 4 had 901 points. An item about removing Python's experimental JIT, a method for running code, had 511, while a new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 had 362.
Survival LLM, described as a locally running AI assistant and emergency library, had 350 points. A new iMac with M6 had 336, and Tailscale's SSH investigation update had 287.
Git for the US Code had 269 points. An item about ink droplets winning the Nikon Small World contest had 238.
Google's search counts are approximate and measure attention, not approval, popularity or quality. Hacker News points are upvotes from one technology website's readers, not a measure of importance.
