Following the trend, it set, Google is back with ‘Year in Search’ for 2018. The quick recap highlights all the user’s interests based on the searches made by the users in India on Google and also covers the major events happened in the last 12-month period.
This year in the top 10 overall list, sporting events and entertainment are the two topics that dominated search queries. Questions around FIFA topping those around the IPL events. Searches for children’s shows including Baal Veer and Motu Patlu also made it to the list. There were queries relating to Robot 2.0.
There were three Hollywood movies that made it to this list, all of which happen to be Marvel blockbusters: Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, and Deadpool 2. On the music front, the songs that ruled the roost included Neha Kakkar’s Dilbar Dilbar, Arijit Singh’s Tera Fitoor and others, where the lone English entrant was the evergreen Latin hit Despacito. Among the personalities that took prominence in Search this year, topping the list is Priya Prakash Varrier, followed by Priyanka Chopra’s spouse, Nick Jonas.
Among the most interesting searches were those centered around ‘How to..’, and ‘What is…’, which saw a wide variety of asks spanning ‘What is the kiki challenge’, as well as ‘How to solve a Rubik’s cube’. The list of ‘Near me…’ queries indicated the highest interest for mobile stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and cash points, with jobs near me also in the reckoning. You can view the entire year-in search trends here.