FAQ
Short answers about modes, scoring, Premium, and how SearchDraft uses search data.
Last updated: August 1, 2026
What is SearchDraft?
A draft game where you pick people, brands, media, places, and more — then historical search-interest data ranks the board. Read more on About or How to play.
Is this Google Trends exactly?
Rankings come from search-interest style providers configured for the product (for example DataForSEO and/or SerpApi). Results can differ by provider, location, date range, and metric. SearchDraft is not an official Google product.
How do Daily Challenge ranks work?
You name five entities for a curated card during the Eastern-day play window. Official submits may show as Pending until overnight freeze, then soft ranks / percentiles unlock for share cards. Free players get 2 starts/day; Premium gets 5.
What’s different about Public lobbies?
Public cards are a separate curated pool from Daily. You snake-draft with other players (bots can fill empty seats). Public finishes update Elo and appear on Leaderboards.
Do Private rooms and Solo affect Elo?
No. Private rooms are for friends/host settings and rematch. Solo is practice against bots. Competitive Elo is tied to Public finishes.
What does Premium include?
The Season Pass raises Daily/Public caps (2→5), unlocks Host pack extras (custom categories + larger private rooms), improves Public priority join, adds season perks, and can skip certain ad gates when ads are on. See /premium.
Will I see ads?
Ads are optional and env-gated. When enabled, free players may see a short interstitial before later starts (not mid-draft). Premium can skip many of those breaks. We keep Auto ads off on play surfaces by design.
Why did my score look different than Google Trends on my phone?
Providers, caching, comparison-graph reuse, location, timeframe, and metric all matter. In-match scores are relative to the entities compared in that context — not a screenshot of every Trends UI in the world.
Can I research during Daily?
Researching is generally fine. Leaving the tab can mark a Daily run unofficial under anti-cheat rules. Public lobbies do not use the same tab-switch rule.
How do I contact you?
Email hello@searchdraft.app or join the Discord linked in the footer. Privacy details are in the Privacy Policy.