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What are the best free alternatives to BuzzSumo for finding viral content ideas in the tech industry today?

ChatGPTgpt-61 query11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

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What are the best free alternatives to BuzzSumo for finding viral content ideas in the tech industry today?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
best free BuzzSumo alternatives content research viral topic discovery tech industry 2026 free plans Google Trends Exploding Topics Feedly Reddit Hacker NewsGoogle ↗
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Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
best free BuzzSumo alternatives content research viral topic discovery tech industry 2026 free plans Google Trends Exploding Topics Feedly Reddit Hacker News Google ↗
  1. Visit Google Trends · trends.google.com
  2. Visit Reddit · reddit.com
  3. Visit Hacker News · news.ycombinator.com
  4. Visit Exploding Topics · explodingtopics.com
  5. Visit Product Hunt · producthunt.com
  6. Visit GitHub Trending · github.com
  7. Visit AnswerThePublic · answerthepublic.com
  8. Visit Talkwalker Alerts · talkwalker.com
  9. Trenderly · konvrt.cc
  10. F5Bot · f5bot.com
  11. Social Searcher · social-searcher.com
  12. Inoreader · inoreader.com
  13. SparkToro · sparktoro.com
  14. Free Social Listening Tools: 11 Checked (2026) · nolyn.ai
  15. BuzzSumo Alternatives (2026): 10 Tools Compared · lilachbullock.com
  16. Best BuzzSumo Alternatives for Content Research and Alerts · syften.com

Queries

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best free BuzzSumo alternatives content research viral topic discovery tech industry 2026 free plans Google Trends Exploding Topics Feedly Reddit Hacker News
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