re the sample cited by Wolfgang:

Those in "repressed" regions may need to search to find out what it is.

Those in "less repressed" regions in some cases may be searching to try to figure out how to do it.

Those in the US and/or UK¹ (according to some opinions of the populace) most likely are only concerned about who's doing it.


¹ You'll have to figure out for yourselves where to put these regions on the repressed/unrepressed scale.


As an additional example, using "torture" as the search term, the #2 place was Washington DC, where they're probably looking for ways to get by with it without looking guilty. The next US city is near the bottom of the list, where most likely (in Chicago) it has something to do with local copshop stories(?).

(Making up your own bizarre interpretations is lots of fun. Believing in them is probably pretty ridiculous.)

For those who might want to get in the "front door" at trends it should be at Google trends. (It appears to be still a bit "rough," as I had to retry each of four or five terms I "tested" - some up to 4 times.)

John