Sunday, September 27, 2026
Minecraft's The Sift dimension sent search interest from zero to 100 after Minecraft Live, while FTC Amazon Prime refund news spiked settlement queries to 100. Major AI models like Kimi K3 and Gemma 4 falsely appeared as rising queries despite months of decline.
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Rising Query Graveyard: Phantom Breakouts vs Real Traction
Major UpdateThe graveyard expands to major AI models: Kimi K3, Gemma 4, Qwen 3.5, and Google Antigravity all appeared as 'rising' queries this week despite being in steady multi-month decline, confirming the filter systematically mislabels post-peak products as breakouts.
See previous coverageAI Humanizer Surpasses QuillBot as Rewriting Category King
Still TrendingGeneric 'ai humanizer' interest holds at 37 while QuillBot sits at 18, maintaining the category flip first reported last week.
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Minecraft 'The Sift' Dimension Explodes From Zero
Search interest for 'minecraft sift' jumped from 0 to 100 in the week after Minecraft Live (Sept 26), while 'the sift minecraft' hit 55 and 'minecraft new dimension' reached 44.
Amazon Prime FTC Settlement Refunds Spike to 100
Interest in 'amazon prime settlement' surged to 100 this week after the FTC announced automatic refunds up to $200 starting October 1, 2026, up from near-zero baseline in August.
The Phantom Model Graveyard: Major AI Models Appear 'Rising' While Declining
Kimi K3 peaked at 100 in July and has fallen to 3, Gemma 4 peaked at 50 in April and is now at 4, and Qwen 3.5 peaked at 11 in March and is now at 1—yet all three recently appeared as 'rising' queries.
Coding Agent Winter: Interest Down 80%+ From Spring Peaks
Claude Code collapsed from 41 in mid-July to 16 now, while OpenAI Codex fell from 7 to 1—both surfacing in 'rising query' lists despite steady multi-month declines.