Kaila White

The Republic | azcentral.com

Of all of the Google searches performed in Arizona in the week since Election Day, the top search involving the word "volunteer" was "Planned Parenthood volunteer."

It was the only query in the top five to reference a specific organization or cause. And after "donate plasma," the top "donate" queries in Arizona were about donating to Planned Parenthood.

To put that into context, Arizonans' top Google searches in the last year involving the word “donate” were on donating blood, plasma and, surprisingly, a testicle. Their "volunteer" searches were general, such as "volunteer opportunities."

Arizona trends are in line with the rest of the country: Google Trends stated that search interest in "donate to..." non-profits has spiked across the country since the U.S. election.

The top three organizations receiving national interest are Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and environmental organization Sierra Club.

The Republic analyzed Google Trends information — which anyone can search at google.com/trends/explore — to find out what the most popular search queries in Arizona were between about noon on Election Day and noon the following Tuesday.

"How to move to Canada" still prevails

Of all of the Google searches performed in Arizona between Election Day and the following Tuesday, the No. 1 "how to" query was "how to move to Canada."

That search was the top "how to" search in the 24 hours after the election and has stayed strong in the days since.

Rounding out the top five were "how to impeach a president," "how many electoral votes to win," and then a couple settling-back-into-normal-life searches: "how to tie a tie" and "how to make slime."

What we Googled in Arizona on Election Day

The popular vote and voter turnout

The top two most-searched queries involving the word "vote" were "popular vote 2016" and "popular vote."

Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 700,000 votes but won the Electoral College, according to the Associated Press.

For searches involving the word "voter," the top two were about voter turnout.

"While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126 million votes already counted means about 55 percent of voting age citizens cast ballots this year," which is "the lowest in a presidential election since 1996," according to CNN.

Arizona-specific searches

Although Phoenix high school students walked out of school in recent days in protest of President-elect Donald Trump and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the only school that registered with enough people to appear as a top search for "walkout" was "North High School walkout."

Hundreds of students walked out of North and Maryvale high schools in Phoenix on Election Day to protest Trump and Arpaio.

The top "what is" query was "what is a blue alert?" The Arizona Department of Public Safety issued a Blue Alert last week asking for the public’s help in locating Daniel Erickson, who police say shot and killed Show Low Officer Darrin Reed.

Curiosity about the electoral system

Confusion about the Electoral College remained: Four of the top five queries involving the word "how" were about the debated system.

Many people tried to understand why the system exists: the No. 2 and 3 most-Googled “why is" questions in the last week were “why is there an electoral college” and “why is the electoral college good?”

For "how did" searches, No. 1 was "how did Trump win?"

A surprising No. 4 was "how many votes did Harambe get," referencing the 17-year-old great ape killed by Cincinnati Zoo officials in May after a 3-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. People have turned Harambe into a meme, and many joked online about voting for him.

In other news...

Veterans Day was Friday, and the most-searched phrase involving the word "veteran" was "what is a veteran?"

Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations defines a veteran as “a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.”

And while the No. 3 query involving the words "how can" was "how can a president be removed from office," the No. 1 and 2 spots were "how many earths can fit in the sun" and "how much house can I afford?"

For what it's worth, it would take about 1.3 million Earths to fill up the sun, according to Universe Today.