Google’s July 4th doodle highlights most-searched-for recipes by state in the US

Google wants to help you prepare the most popular dishes for US Independence Day with this special Google doodle.

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The Fourth of July is tomorrow, but Google has uploaded its Independence Day doodle on the Google US home page a day early. The doodle showcases some of the most-searched-for recipes broken down by state. Google used Google Trends to build this year’s doodle. When you click on the play button on the doodle, you can drill into any state within the USA and pull up the most-searched-for dish.

Google will then direct you to a Google search for the recipe so you can make the dish yourself at home.

Google said on its blog:

To celebrate the the United States’ birthday—and one of the most scrumptious holidays of the summer — today’s Doodle shares top searched recipes in each U.S. state and territory. The results are as American as apple pie…and gumbo, goulash and spaghetti squash.

Click through the interactive map to find what recipes people are searching for based on Google Trends data, fun facts about the delectable dishes and a whole lot of inspiration for your upcoming Fourth of July menus. The fun doesn’t have to stop at food — check out Google Trends data to see what else people are searching for around Independence Day.

Here are some screen shots of the process of using this Google Doodle:

Google July 4 Usa

You can then drill into any state, but the Northeast states require you to drill in deeper, since they are a bit closer together:

Google July 4 Northeast

Then you can click on a specific state that will show a snippet of the dish popular in that state:

Google July 4 Main

If you click on the magnifying glass, you are taken to the Google search results page with the recipe results:

Google July 4 Recipe Result


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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