While it doesn’t quite have the scale of Sydney versus Melbourne, Alexandra and Yea do love to play the rivalry game.

There is football. There is netball. There are strong opinions about which town is the better place to live, work, shop or have a coffee. There are also strong opinions about which town is better for tourists to visit.

Google Trends shows how Victorian searches for Alexandra and Yea have moved over the last three months.

Google Trends does not provide the number of people searching for each town but instead takes a sample of searches and normalises the results.

The highest point for a topic during the selected period and location is given a score of 100, with other points expressed relative to that peak.

The figures represent search interest, rather than search volume.

It does however provide is a snapshot of when people around Victoria are searching for each town.

Yea was the winner across the search period.

Alexandra’s highest result, on July 24, was the day when a man attempted to evade police after they tried to apprehend him using stop-sticks.

This was the only time when Alexandra beat Yea in terms of searches across the three-month period.

This content is part of a paid partnership with Google to promote Google Trends. It uses Google Trends data to explore Australian search interest in Yea and Alexandra. Google Trends data is aggregated and anonymous. Search interest is measured on a relative scale and does not represent total search volume.