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. The bad news is that it was because he is HIV positive.
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Two of the Kardashian family members have taken the top two slots on Google’s top ten people searches list.
Even my grandma heard Adele’s #1 hit song “Hello” this year, and she’s deaf.
“What is 0 divided by 0?” stole the number one spot for the “What is…” top ten list. That’s predictable enough, but perhaps the most surprising thing-at least to those New Yorkers who consider themselves essentially a different species from other Americans-is how much searches in NYC resembled those in the rest of the country.
The entire list of top search terms can be found here, but we just told you that the Lynx were the most-searched WNBA team, so you can probably move on.
Lamar Odom, Caitlyn Jenner and Ronda Rousey topped this year’s list of most Googled people, with Donald Trump and Ruby Rose closely following suit.
Joining Odom on the most searched list was the city of Paris, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the the movie “Jurassic World”.
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Fellow Internet giants Twitter and Facebook have also released their own set of trending items.
