NEW YORK (AP) — Keep in mind what you looked for in 2024? Google does.
Google launched its annual “Year in Search” on Tuesday, rounding up the highest trending queries entered into its namesake search engine in 2024. The outcomes present phrases that noticed the best spike in visitors in comparison with final 12 months — starting from key information occasions, notably world elections, to the preferred songs, athletes and unforgettable pop-culture moments that folks appeared up worldwide.
Sports activities — significantly soccer and cricket — dominated Google’s general trending searches in 2024. Copa América topped these search developments globally, adopted by the UEFA European Championship and ICC Males’s T20 World Cup.
In the meantime, the U.S. election led news-specific searches worldwide. Queries about extreme warmth and this 12 months’s Olympic Video games adopted.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump topped searches in Google’s folks class this 12 months — adopted by Catherine, Princess of Wales, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who additionally led athlete-specific searches. In the meantime, the late Liam Payne, Toby Keith and O.J. Simpson led search developments amongst notable people who died in 2024.
On the earth of leisure, Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” was the highest trending film of the 12 months, whereas Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” led TV present developments. And Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” dominated track developments.
That is simply the tip of the iceberg. Queries for the Olympic village’s chocolate muffin, made well-known by Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen over the summer time video games, led Google’s world recipe developments this 12 months. The New York Occasions’ “Connections” puzzle topped sport searches. And within the U.S., country-specific knowledge exhibits, many individuals requested Google about on-line developments just like the phrase “demure” and “ mob wife aesthetic.”
You’ll find extra country-specific lists, and developments from years previous, by Google’s “Year in Search” knowledge printed on-line. The California firm stated it collected 2024 search outcomes from Jan. 1 by Nov. 23 of this 12 months.
Google is not the one one to publish an annual recap or high developments as 2024 attracts to an in depth. Spotify Wrapped, for instance, in addition to Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster’s phrases of the 12 months, have provided extra reflections for 2024.
