Several topics witnessed an increase of popularity in 2020, according to billions of Google searches.

The global effect of the COVID pandemic is expressed in several searches.

People turn to search engines when times are unpredictable.

Google’s Year in Search 2020 offers a glimpse at the year’s worries, anxieties, distractions, and obsessions. Some of our queries are reassuringly identical no matter where we are on the globe, whilst others show cultural quirks and variations.

Google looks at the billions of search queries it gets every day and discovers the keywords that have experienced the greatest increase this year relative to last year. The term “coronavirus” topped the total ranking, which is unsurprising.

Searches

1.  Coronavirus
2.  Election results
3.  Kobe Bryant
4.  Zoom
5.  IPL
6.  India vs New Zealand
7.  Coronavirus update
8.  Coronavirus symptoms
9.  Joe Biden
10.  Google Classroom

Check the full analysis at Google’s Year in Search 2020