Google Trends is a good indicator of what moves people. In 2022, topics other than Corona dominated for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Berlin – Google is the most used search engine in the world, the site processes around nine billion queries every day. The one released on Wednesday Year in review of Google trends gives an indication of what was on people’s minds in 2022. For the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic, the virus no longer made it into the most searched terms. Instead, people were primarily interested in the Ukraine war and Vladimir Putin – but also in unusual questions such as “What are Akren?” and “What are gravel spies?”.
These were the most searched topics in Germany in 2022
“Why is Russia attacking Ukraine?” – No other “why question” had occupied Google users in this country so much in 2022. The attack by the Russian army on the neighboring country dominated almost all sections of the annual charts of the search engine giant in Germany, as Google announced in Berlin on Wednesday.
The word “Ukraine” was also at the top of the top ten list of “search terms of the year 2022”. However, the war is also reflected in the ranking of the headlines, the questions of the year and the politicians with the highest increased search interest.
- Top ten search terms 2022
- 1 Ukraine
2 World Cup 2022
3 Olympics 2022
4 queens
5Vladimir Putin
6 monkeypox
7 women EM 2022
8 Nations League
9Jeffrey Dahmer
10 Wind Gust Warning
These were the most wanted personalities in 2022
In the German Google charts, Russian President Vladimir Putin is not only number 1 among the most searched for politicians, but also in the category “prominent personalities”. Here he leaves behind the quarreling ex-partners Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, who had fought their War of the Roses publicly in court. Boris Becker, who had to go to prison in England for violating bankruptcy requirements, landed in fourth place on the celebrity list. He was followed by Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, who also made headlines for refusing to vaccinate.
Many people also googled for Green Party politician Anne Spiegel, who resigned from her position as Federal Minister for Family Affairs in April after just five months. She had been accused of failure as Rhineland-Palatinate environment minister during the flood disaster in the Ahr valley. She ended up in second place in the politicians’ list. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who had to justify himself in public because of his closeness to the war leader Putin, is third in the politicians’ charts.
- Top ten farewells 2022
- 1 queen
2 Aaron Carter
3 Anne Heche
4 Uwe Seeler
5 meat loaf
6 Uwe Bohm
7 Hardy Krueger
8 Rainer Schaller
9 Olivia Newton-John
10Taylor Hawkins
Corona virus remains an issue: 2nd and 4th place among the most popular “how-questions”
The corona pandemic no longer appears in the top 10 list of “trending search queries” in 2022. On the other hand, people in Germany were more interested in monkeypox after infections with the virus had also occurred in Germany. But the corona virus was still in the list of the most popular “how-questions”: “How long does the quarantine last?” was in second place in this list of questions, “How long does a PCR test take?”, in place 4, followed by “How long is it considered recovered?” and three more questions about the duration of vaccination protection and the pandemic itself.
- Top ten headlines 2022
- 1 Ukraine
2 monkeypox
3 9 euro ticket
4 Heat Warning
5 Layla
6 Will Smith
7Taiwan
8 energy flat rate
9 Qatar
10 citizen money
“What are Akren?”: How the most popular “what question” in Google Trends came about
The most popular “what question” may seem strange to many people. Why on earth were Google users en masse wanting an answer to the extraordinary question “What are Akren?”? Loyal viewers of the quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire know the answer. With this question, a candidate in January on the RTL show almost gambled away a big win. Only when moderator Günther Jauch was able to talk the flight attendant out of a possibly wrong answer did she give up and go home with a profit of 290,000 euros. Incidentally, “Akros” is Greek for “the utmost”, so “fingers and toes” were sought – and not “Zugspitze and Mont Blanc”, which the candidate had initially tended towards.
The question “What are gravel spies?” also made it into the list, which very few could answer off the cuff. In 2022 the World Rally Championship took place. Schotterspione is a term from motorsport and refers to test drives shortly before the start of a race to identify sources of danger such as gravel or wet conditions and thus increase driver safety. (dpa/bme)
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