Google has released this year’s search trends and ‘coronavirus’ has understandably topped the charts in Greece coming in at first place for news searches. In Australia, it came in second.
Google’s Year In Search shares statistics from overall searches to individual categories ranging from news and sporting events to recipes and celebrities who have passed away.
Google searches reflected the year of alternative educational practices, as schools across the world shifted to online platforms to push on through the year.
Overall, the most searched term in Greece for 2020 was ‘E-Class’, referring to the country’s online education platform, followed by the daily number of ‘Covid-19 infections’ in second place leaving ‘coronavirus’ third on the list.
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Australia saw ‘coronavirus’ come in second in both overall and news searches, but it seems many Aussies were fixated on the US elections which came out on top in both categories the last 12 months.
Third overall was the NBA, showing the Aussie love for sport no matter where in the world it is, however news searches showed concern for the bushfire season with ‘fires near me’ coming in third.
In Greece’s top news category searches, the US elections and Hagia Sophia followed coronavirus in second and third place.
Lockdowns also saw many trying their hand at viral recipes such as the Dalgona coffee that came in first, with bread, tsoureki, shrimp spaghetti, pancakes, papoutsakia and magiritsa following behind.
You can find all the trends from across the world here.
