According to CNBC, Google defines a trending search as something “that held the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period of time in 2015”.
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For Star Wars, for example, Google shows that Dark Vader is the top searched Star Wars character, with Princess Leia being second and Chewbacca third.
Other popular searches included the year’s big movies, such as Jurassic World and American Sniper, and, of course, Donald Trump.
The 36-year-old’s “trending” name came in at number one followed by the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Agar.io and Jurassic World.
Odom, a two-time National Basketball Association champion and 2010 FIBA World Championship gold medal victor, re-entered the public spotlight after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel earlier this year.
Google’s list excludes search queries that were sexually explicit.
Other search engines, social networking company Facebook and short messaging specialist Twitter already released their own takes on this year’s collective mindset, but Google’s is considered to be the definitive look into what’s on people’s minds. As for Jenner, her acceptance speech at the Espys plays over Google’s highlight video.
“You’ve got to imagine, the Cubs are getting searched for a lot every year, but they did so well this season that they actually drew more attention this year”, Lenihan said.
At the top of Google’s annual list of its top searches are Lamar Odom, the tragic attacks in Paris and dinosaurs on the big screen. The film ranked as the No. 1 trending film and the sixth most popular search overall.
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The top search of the year was Lamar Odom.
