Much has been written about Newt Gingrich’s surge over the last week, including a Google Politics & Elections post showing a nearly 700% jump in South Carolina searches for the former Speaker.

In the graphic below, we tracked South Carolina searches for the four remaining candidates over that time period. As you can see, though Gingrich experienced the largest search surge, Santorum also saw a sharp uptick and even surpassed Ron Paul to take second place today. This is especially relevant given that exit polls indicate half of all South Carolina voters “made up their minds in the last few days.”