Do you know who or what the globe “Googled” the most in 2023? Well, the answers have just been released by the California-based IT behemoth, and some of them may surprise you. The Google report presents a picture of what people were most interested in all year, from pop culture to global news trends to the deaths of beloved people and directions to locations.
Instead of pop icon Taylor Swift, Time’s Person of the Year for 2023, who didn’t even make the top 5, the top trending person search was for Damar Hamlin, the NFL Buffalo Bills safety who suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest on the field during a January NFL game and later completed a much-celebrated comeback. Actor Jeremy Renner, who survived a horrific snowplow accident at the beginning of 2023, was ranked second. Among renowned personalities who have died in the United States, the late Matthew Perry and Tina Turner lead search trends. The top five were completed by Jerry Springer, Jimmy Buffett, and Sinead O’Connor.
“Barbie” dominated Google search’s movie trends this year — followed by “Oppenheimer”
“Barbie” dominated Google search’s movie trends this year — followed by “Oppenheimer” and the Indian thriller “Jawan.” In TV, “The Last of Us,” “Wednesday” and “Ginny and Georgia” were the top three trending shows searched in 2023. According to Google, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict topped the list of news trends in 2023, followed by the submersible that exploded en route to the Titanic crash site in June.
The tale of Turkey’s devastating earthquakes was the third most-searched news item, trailed only by Hurricane Hilary. Yoasobi’s “(Idol)” was the top trending song on Google. Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” which was a chart-topper after controversy this year, came in second, and Shakira and Bizarrap’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” came in third. According to Google, Aldean’s song ranked top in the United States.
The most searched park was Central Park in New York, while the most searched stadium was Spotify Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain. The Louvre Museum in Paris and The British Museum in London topped the list. No museum in the United States made the top five. Many shoppers in the United States, in particular, wanted to know why eggs, Taylor Swift tickets, and sriracha bottles were so pricey — and “rizz,” which was recently selected Oxford’s word of the year, was a frontrunner for popular slang definition searches.