Interest in whether Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech was plagiarized from first lady Michelle Obama Michelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaTo honor Justice Ginsburg's legacy, Biden should consider Michelle Obama National Urban League, BET launch National Black Voter Day The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - White House moves closer to Pelosi on virus relief bill MORE surged among Google search users as the controversy grew.

Google said on Tuesday morning that searches for “melania trump michelle obama” rose 1,250 percent and that the top question related to Melania Trump was “who wrote Melania’s speech?”

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The search term “plagiarized” was also one of the words most linked to searches for Melania Trump’s name.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE introduced his wife in Cleveland on Monday night. But her speech was quickly overshadowed by the fact that a passage was noticeably similar, in some places word-for-word, to the address Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Trump’s campaign has vehemently pushed back against the accusations of plagiarism as the controversy threatened to consume the second day of the convention.

“Well there’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These were common words and values,” campaign manager Paul Manafort said on CNN Tuesday.

Jason Miller, a campaign spokesman, said that “Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking.”

Complicating matters further, Melania Trump told an interviewer Monday that she had written the speech herself with “as little help as possible.”

Melania Trump has kept a relatively low profile throughout the campaign, making her Monday speech one of her most prominent appearances so far.