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"Black Friday Sales" is the most searched for topic on Google Insights on the morning of November 25.

With just two days left before one of the biggest shopping days in the US, people are hitting the internet to search for Black Friday deals.

This year Black Friday will take place on November 27 in the US. Many North American retailers have disclosed their Black Friday shopping discounts on the web, hoping it will boost their Black Friday sales and draw customers into their stores.

Searches for Twilight star Taylor Lautner continue to trend in locations across the world. Lautner has quickly risen to fame after staring in both Twilight movies. He left teenage girls swooning after he appeared bare-chested in the second film of the Twilight Saga, New Moon.

The search terms with the most significant growth worldwide in the last seven days as measured by Google Insights, recorded on November 25 at 9:30 AM GMT are:

1. black friday sales (+750%)
2. taylor lautner (+200%)
3. new moon (+180%)
4. black friday (+150%)
5. lua nova (+140%)
6. black friday ads (+120%)
7. twilight (+100%)
8. thanksgiving (+100%)
9. robert pattinson (+70%)
10. livescore (+60%)

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