Dolly Parton still holds rank 1 on Google Trends on August 31, 2026, six days after she died at 80 following a brief cancer battle. E! News said the August 28 private funeral at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville placed her beside Carl Dean. Versus the August 30 board, full moon august 2026 and john paul miller drop off, lunar eclipse returns at 4, and mica miller is the new rank 9. A Google Trends API growth pull through August 29 puts Dolly at a 100.0 index versus 1.0 on August 22, a 9,900 percent 7-day rise, with the same 9,900 percent on 30 days.
Top trending searches on Google Trends: August 31
dolly parton: Country singer who died August 25 after a brief cancer battle. The query holds rank 1 for a sixth day after the August 28 private funeral; Google Search 7D growth through August 29 is +9,900 percent from a 1.0 baseline to 100.0.
tim curry: English actor known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Manager Marcia Hurwitz said he died August 25 at 80 in Toluca Lake; BBC said LAPD responded at 23:23 local. The name holds rank 2. A 7-day growth print of 999,999 percent from a 0.0 baseline is omitted here.
nepal: Himalayan country hit by Wednesday glacier-collapse floods. ETV Bharat on August 31 cited Nepal's NDRRMA at 903 dead and 4,247 missing or out of contact, including 592 foreign nationals. The query holds rank 3. Google Search 7D growth through August 29 is +566.67 percent (15.0 to 100.0), 30D +354.55 percent.
lunar eclipse: Deep partial eclipse that peaked at 04:12 UTC on August 28 with 96.2 percent of the Moon in umbra. The string left the August 30 board for full moon august 2026 and now returns at 4. Google Search 7D growth through August 29 is +644.44 percent (9.0 to 67.0), 30D +3,250 percent.
peter cullen: Canadian voice of Optimus Prime, who died August 26 at 85 in Los Angeles. Agent Kevin Motley confirmed the death. The name holds rank 5.
dolly parton cause of death: Follow-up query on the unspecified cancer cited in family statements after the August 25 death. The string was rank 2 on August 29, dropped off August 30, and re-enters at 6.
lake ontario: Great Lake Trump ordered renamed Lake America. Google Maps on August 30 began showing Lake America for U.S. users while Canada still sees Lake Ontario; Doug Ford called the order an SNL skit on ABC's This Week. Google Search 7D growth through August 29 is +1,216.67 percent (6.0 to 79.0), 30D +887.5 percent.
lindsay clancy verdict: Search for the Duxbury, Massachusetts murder trial. NBC Boston said the 12-person jury (9 women, 3 men) logged Friday without a verdict and returns Monday at 9 a.m. The query holds rank 8.
mica miller: Worship leader found dead April 27, 2024 at Lumber River State Park, the subject of Netflix's three-part Death of the Pastor's Wife, which began streaming August 26. TODAY said John-Paul Miller is out on a $100,000 bond with a federal cyberstalking trial pushed to October 2026. New versus August 30, replacing john paul miller at 9.
carl dean: Parton's husband, who died March 2025 at 82. Page Six said she was buried beside him at Woodlawn on August 28. The query was rank 6 on August 30 and now sits at 10 after shelley fabares drops off.
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What changed on Google Trends since August 30
New entrants: lunar eclipse (4), dolly parton cause of death (6), mica miller (9).
Big movers: none of 5 or more ranks. carl dean 6 to 10. lake ontario holds 7. peter cullen holds 5. lindsay clancy verdict holds 8.
Drop-offs: full moon august 2026 (was 4), john paul miller (was 9), shelley fabares (was 10).
What today's Google Trends board reveals
Obituary search still owns the top. Dolly at 1, Tim Curry at 2, Peter Cullen at 5, cause of death at 6, and Carl Dean at 10 sit in one cluster six days after the first two deaths. The burial confirmation is no longer a new fact; the board is now splitting Dolly into the name and the cause query.
Nepal at 3 is the non-obituary spike, with NDRRMA's missing count now at 4,247. Lunar eclipse at 4 is the August 28 aftershock returning after a one-day swap to full moon. Mica Miller at 9 is the Netflix true-crime handoff from the pastor's name to the victim's. Lake Ontario at 7 is a four-day-old naming fight that still prints a 79.0 index after Google Maps flipped U.S. labels on August 30.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for Google Trends with limit 10 as of 2026-08-31T08:01:33.334509+00:00. The call is built for researchers, newsrooms, and agents that need the live search board rather than a screenshot. The matching data source page is Google Trends API.
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