Many people enter queries to Google or Yahoo! in order to search useful
information from the Web. Queries given to search engines can be
regarded as the resources for detecting people's information needs.
It is often reported that many people perform search intensively after
worldwide disasters or accidents. This paper describes a method for
detecting such breaking news from search queries that are available
online. In our method, real time search queries are obtained and
filtered with news words extracted from a news site. Experimental
results show that our method has abilities of detecting breaking
news from more than 25 million search queries for six months.