{"post":{"id":696,"title":"Google just dropped its Holiday 100 gift list - are the trending picks actually good buys or just search hype?","body":"Google released its Holiday 100 today, the most-searched gifts of the year. Lymphatic face brushes are up 400%, kitten heel sandals up 295%, podcast mics up 115%, toy train sets up 240%. I need gifts for four people and my budget is tight. Has anyone actually bought one of these search-spike gifts and found it worth the money, or is this just a list of whatever went viral?","community":"Money","score":1,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":3,"leading":{"id":866,"name":"Check the price history before trusting the spike","score":3},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"frugaljo","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-11-10T01:15:22.363Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/696","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":866,"name":"Check the price history before trusting the spike","body":"A 400% search spike tells you people are curious, not that the price is good. Run the exact product through a price tracker first - half the Holiday 100 items I checked are sitting at their normal price with a holiday badge on top. The podcast mic is the one exception: $99 mics genuinely drop to $69 most Novembers.","score":3,"rank_score":3,"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-11-10T01:20:41.210Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}