NEW YORK (AP) β Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived.
Well, actually, the world’s. On Monday, the California-based tech giant released its βYear in Search,β a roundup of 2023βs top global queries, ranging from unforgettable pop culture moments (hello,Β BarbenheimerΒ ), to the loss of beloved figures and tragic news carrying worldwide repercussions.
The ongoingΒ Israel-Hamas warΒ topped news trends in 2023, per Google’s global data, followed by queries related to theΒ Titanic-bound submersibleΒ that imploded in June, as well as February’sΒ devastating earthquakesΒ in Turkey and Syria.
Damar Hamlin was Google’s top trending person on search this year. A safety with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, Hamlin experienced aΒ near-death cardiac arrestΒ on the field during a January game, but has sinceΒ completed a celebrated comeback. Actor Jeremy Renner, who survived aΒ serious snowplow accidentΒ at the start of 2023, followed. Meanwhile, the lateΒ Matthew PerryΒ andΒ Tina TurnerΒ led search trends among notable individuals who passed away.
In the world ofΒ entertainment, βBarbieβ dominated Google search’s movie trends this year β followed by Barbenheimer co-pilot βOppenheimerβ and Indian thriller “Jawan.” In TV, βThe Last of Us,β βWednesdayβ and βGinny and Georgiaβ were the top three trending shows in 2023.
Yoasobi’s “γ’γ€γγ« (Idol)” was Google’s top trending song on search. Jason Aldean’s βTry That In A Small Townβ β which soared in the chartsΒ after controversyΒ this summer β and Shakira and Bizarrap’s βBzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53β followed.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Google’s 2023 global search trends. Bibimbap was the top trending recipe. Inter Miami CF, the new home of Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi, led Google’s sports teams trends. And in the U.S. specifically, many consumers spent 2023 asking whyΒ eggs,Β Taylor Swift ticketsΒ andΒ srirachaΒ bottles were so expensive β while βrizzβ (recently namedΒ Oxfordβs word of the yearΒ ) was a frontrunner for trending slang definition inquires.
You can find more data, including country-specific lists and trends from years past, onΒ Google’s βYear in Searchβ archive. The company says it collected its 2023 search results from Jan. 1 through Nov. 27 of this year.
Google isn’t the only one to publish annual data as 2023 draws to a close β and fromΒ dictionary lookupsΒ toΒ music streams, chances are, you’ve probably seen other lists recapping online activity this year. Last week, for example, Wikipedia releasedΒ its year-end listΒ of most-viewed entries β with its article aboutΒ ChatGPTΒ leading the pack.
To mark the search engine’s 25th birthday, Google also released top search data βof all timeβ across various specific categories. Since 2004 (when the company’s trends data first became available globally), the most-Googled Grammy winner of all time has been BeyoncΓ©, for example, while Portuguese soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest-searched athlete, and the most-searched movie or TV cast is βHarry Potter.β
