Category: Lists + Maps

In 2014, not everyone in America searched online for a home for sale. Even though using Estately is a simple, efficient way to find a home many Americans chose to spend their time online doing other things. Using Google Trends we entered search terms for the year’s biggest stories and controversies, people and companies who made news, popular TV shows and movies, and more. We learned Texas and Oklahoma spent 2014 fretting about Ebola, Californians and Nevadans were very curious Bitcoin, and Michigan and Utah will receive coal in their stockings for all those attempts to find leaked nude photos of celebrities.

With the polar ice caps melting it won’t be long before Santa Claus is forced to abandon the North Pole and relocate his home and workshop. But where in America would this jolly old elf be most at home?

Thanksgiving is the time of year when Americans gather together to give thanks, and also to argue politics, yell at the TV, listen to that drunk uncle slander whole ethnic groups, and fight their neighbors in Wal-Mart parking lots during Black Friday sales.

When choosing where to live, home buyers have to consider proximity to jobs, potential mates, family, and more. So what’s a potential home buyer to do when there are two states with equal potential? Estately would like to offer up another in their series of tie breakers—world records that have been set in each state.

A recent Pew Research report that shows the continued decline of marriage rates has opened a debate about the decline in men who are worthy of marrying. Why are men increasingly undesirable?

Because mapping out each U.S. state’s sordid internet search histories isn’t nosy enough, Estately teamed decided to peek at each state’s dreams by teaming up with DreamsCloud, a site that helps users find meaning and deeper understanding in their dreams.