As the time nears to ring in the new year, Google is looking to wrap up the year with its annual Year in Search list. Google’s Year in Search 2022 is a global look at what was trending this year and can be further broken down into what was trending in different countries and regions. Topping the list this year was “Wordle” which saw a sharp increase in queries following the fiver-letter word game’s acquirement by The New York Times at the start of the year.
Trailing shortly after was “India vs. England,” showing the amount of interest in the two nation’s faceoff at this year’s Cricket World Cup. Rounding up the top five searches of the year is “Ukraine,” “Queen Elizabeth,” and “India vs. Saudi Arabia,” another one of India’s Cricket World Cup matchups. Some interesting searches to wrap up the top 10 list were for Apple‘s iPhone 14, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Indian Premier League.
For most searched people, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, Amber Heard, Vladimir Putin, and Chris Rock topped the list for 2022. While on the entertainment end, Thor: Love and Thunder was the top movie searched and Euphoria was the top TV show searched.
Head over to Google to catch its Year in Search 2022 list in full.
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