Google’s review of the most searched, and indeed the most important events of 2015 has come in at last via Google Trends – top searches included celebrities, this year’s hottest digital media, and some of the most moving headlines to come out of a year that frankly has been extraordinary in so many ways. The online know-it-all had a heck of a year. Their conclusions were that people were interested to know how they can help with various crisis that struck all over the world, they were searching for perspective, acceptance, Adele saying Hello, and of course, the Star Wars juggernaut which exploded just this month.
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The French capital topped Google’s Year in Search 2015, with more than 897 million searches worldwide relating to the November 13 terror attacks. He’s now recovering in LA.
In terms of media, dinosaur epic Jurassic World, starring the godlike Chris Pratt, managed to be the fourth top ranked search term, and surprisingly a late entry, Fallout 4, made it into number seven.
And like number one, the number four most searched topic in 2015 was a famous athlete turned reality star: Caitlyn Jenner, who made a very public transition to a woman.
MMA fighting champ Ronda Rousey takes the third spot in the list for 2015. She’s been called a pioneer and a beast.
Jenner found her fame as a world-champion Olympic athlete long before she became a controversial spokesperson for transgendered issues following her coming out and transitioning in June.
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The trending global news searches include the Islamic State, Paris attacks, Russia’s airstrikes in Syria, Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away in March, and the Nepal natural disaster that killed more than 9,000 in April. Jenner was most talked about this year after a magazine cover went viral and she went on to reveal her new identity.
