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What trade businesses search for

Two datasets we collected ourselves, and you can download both in full. 1,856 real Google autocomplete queries across 24 trades, and 303 bid ranges for 20 trades across 10 cities. Both in Spanish and English, with the date and the method written out below.

Use them wherever you like, including in something you sell. All we ask is that you cite the source with a link to this page. Licence CC BY 4.0.

The two findings, before the tables

Spanish and English do not behave the same way, and it shows in each dataset separately. The sweep collected 1,399 queries in English against 457 in Spanish. That does not say the Hispanic market is smaller. It says it spreads differently: English concentrates demand in a few head terms and Spanish scatters it across hundreds of variants with little competition.

The bid data says the same thing seen from the money. We could compare 105 cases with data in both languages for the same trade and the same city. In 91 of those 105 the Spanish click came out cheaper, and the median landed at 40 per cent of the English price.

Two trades run the other way, and I am leaving them visible in the table because if the pattern were even across all twenty I would distrust the data myself.

Queries collected per trade

Number of distinct queries autocomplete returned for each trade, split by language. Ordered by total.

TradeSpanishEnglishTotal
Law firms 38 70 108
Real estate 39 65 104
Hotels and tourism 33 70 103
Restaurants and food 36 62 98
Beauty and barbering 26 64 90
Gyms and trainers 16 71 87
Accountants 23 63 86
Insurance 24 58 82
Auto repair 17 64 81
Agencies and software 15 63 78
Cleaning 11 67 78
Education and tutoring 30 48 78
Painting 10 68 78
Fashion and boutiques 23 54 77
Detailing and car wash 5 72 77
Photography, video and design 13 62 75
HVAC and technical trades 30 43 73
Events and weddings 6 61 67
Health and aesthetics 20 42 62
Moving and transport 12 48 60
Landscaping 2 57 59
Veterinary and pets 12 47 59
Construction and remodeling 15 41 56
Home care 1 39 40
Total4571,3991,856

In amber, the trades where autocomplete returns fewer than ten queries in Spanish. It does not mean nobody searches: it means almost nobody writes for them.

What the click costs in Spanish against English

Median of the ratio between the high Spanish bid and the high English bid, worked out per city and then summarised per trade. Only trades with data in four cities or more, because a median from two cities means nothing.

TradeCitiesSpanish against English
Electricians 9 24%
Real estate 4 27%
Dentists 10 34%
Insurance 10 34%
Cleaning 8 38%
Movers 6 38%
Veterinary 10 42%
Auto repair 7 43%
Pest control 4 45%
Plumbing and HVAC 10 54%
Law firms 5 113%
Aesthetics and med spas 10 164%

Above 100% the Spanish click costs more than the English one. It happens in two trades and it is marked.

How each one was collected

The sweep queries the same service that fills the search box as you type. 24 trades by 2 terms by 6 moulds by 2 languages, on 21 September 2026. The script sits in the repository with the three traps we paid to discover written into it: without asking for the right encoding the service answers in ISO-8859-1 and the ñ breaks the decoder; the full query returns a single suggestion while the short mould yields twelve; and autocomplete mixes in video games and household appliances, so "sims 4" turned up under restaurant pain and "roomba" under cleaning.

The bid data comes from Keyword Planner through the Google Ads API, on 21 September 2026. We asked for 400 combinations and 303 came back with a bid. City identifiers are not guessed: they are resolved against the API itself.

What this data is not

The sweep is not search volume. Autocomplete does not publish how many people type each thing, so no query carries a number beside it. It is a thermometer and not a scale.

The bid is not what you will pay. It is the published range to appear at the top, and what you actually pay depends on the quality score of the ad and of the page it leads to.

And both carry a date because both move. In six months this is good for the order of magnitude and not for budgeting.

If you would rather look without downloading anything

The same figures, filtered by your trade and your city, are in what your trade searches and in what a click costs.

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