From Google Trends there is a public interface where you can look at the most popular search queries of a country, similar to Twitter Trends. The special thing about these trends is that they are almost live. This means that you can quickly see what a country is currently doing and the data is constantly updated. You can access these trends directly in the browser.
https://trends.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?pn=p15&nrow=5&ncol=5
An excellent source for raw data! I decided to develop an application, which simply saves the data hourly into a database.
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