Google has released what we all searched for the most this year and wow, what a time
I think lockdown ruined us all
Hayley SoenGoogle has released its Year In Search for 2020 and if you needed any more proof that it’s been an absolute rollercoaster, here it is.
The report lays out the things we all searched for the most, and puts it in categories of things such as TV shows, questions and celebrities. This year has been a year of coronavirus, lockdown, reality TV, vanilla flavouring (yep), hand sanitiser and Carole Baskin. Those are a group of words I never thought I would read together.
Here’s the Google Year In Search 2020 report.
Overall Top 10 Searches this year:
• Coronavirus
• US Election
• Caroline Flack
• Coronavirus symptoms
• Coronavirus update
• Premier League
• Boris Johnson
• Eat Out To Help Out
• Kobe Bryant
• Kim Jony-un
How to…?
• How to make a face mask
• How to make hand sanitiser
• How to make bread
• How to get tested for coronavirus
• How to cut your own hair
Top questions
• Who won the election?
• Where does vanilla flavouring come from?
• How many cases of coronavirus in the UK?
• What is VE day?
• How did coronavirus start?
Celebrities
• Phillip Schofield
• Carole Baskin
• Joe Exotic
• Jordan North
• Elon Musk
• Prince Harry
• Kanye West
• Ruthie Henshall
• Johnny Depp
• Tom Hanks
Coronavirus
• Coronavirus
• Coronavirus symptoms
• Coronavirus update
• Eat Out To Help Out
• Hand sanitiser
Fitness
• Joe Wicks kids workout
• Joe Wicks workout
• Chloe Ting workout
• Skipping workout
• Joe Wicks workout for seniors
via YouTube
Losses
• Caroline Flack
• Kobe Bryant
• Naya Rivera
• Chadwick Boseman
• Sean Connery
News events
• US election
• George Floyd
• Madeleine McCann
• VE Day
• Captain Tom
Lyrics
• WAP lyrics
• We’ll Meet Again lyrics
• Godzilla lyrics
• The Box lyrics
• Rule Britannia lyrics
TV shows
• Love Island
• Dennis Nilsen
• White House Farm
• Normal People
• The Stranger
• Tiger King
• The Fall
• Christine Keeler
• The Undoing
• Gangs Of London
via Netflix
When…?
• When will lockdown end?
• When will gyms reopen?
• When does lockdown start?
• When will schools reopen?
• When does furlough end?
Who…?
via Instagram @zara_mcdermott
• Who won the election?
• Who is the president of America?
• Who are key workers?
• Who did Zara cheat on Sam with?
• Who is Carole Baskin?
You can watch the Google Year In Search 2020 video here:
2020 you’ve been wild, but I’m over you.
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