For example, the No. 1 trending search, surpassing even the Amazins’ World Series frenzy, was Lamar Odom, former National Basketball Association player and Keeping up with the Kardashians reality star husband.
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With the end of 2015 approaching, Google released its results of the most searched terms of the year. Jenner is also in the top 4 of the overall “trending search” list of 2015.
Google handles about 65 percent of the search requests, which puts it in an excellent place to know what people around the world are thinking about.
The fifth spot on the list went to UFC champion Ronda Rousey. Jenner was previously married to Kris Jenner, mother of television personality Kim Kardashian.
The search engine created a graphic to depict the search volume and life cycle of the year’s biggest news stories, including the January and November attacks in Paris that triggered almost 900 million searches; the 2015 Oscars, which racked up more than 400 million searches; and the Women’s World Cup, which got roughly 113 million searches.
In a year marked by disaster and tragedy, Google said “the questions we asked revealed who we are”.
Who else made the top ten? There were 439 million searches related to the British artist, whose single “Hello” broke records for digital sales.
“A number of people have looked to the Internet for updated news on these issues, as well as searching for other global news”.
English songwriter and singer Adele was searched on Google for more than 439 million times.
“We define the trending queries as the searches that had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2015 as compared to 2014”, says a Google spokesperson.
Top film searches were for “Jurassic Park”, action film “Furious 7”, war picture “American Sniper”, erotic drama “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the animated 3D movie “Minions”.
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Love him or hate him, Republican presidential primary candidate Donald Trump led the pack when it came to searches for politicians, beating out Bernie Sanders and Carly Fiorina.
