What Australians searched for this year

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Matthew Perry, Tina Turner and Sinead O’Conner topped the list for celebrities who died this year, in that order. And globally Shakira, Jason Aldean and Joe Jonas topped the list of most-searched musicians.

You can find more data on what Australians searched for in Google’s full lists, including our top DIY searches (“how to make a paper popper” is top of that list, which one can only assume means it was featured in a TikTok at some point), as well as the terms we most wanted defined, which this year was topped by SNAFU (a NSFW acronym) and ennui.

Over at the search giant’s “Year in Search” archive you can find the global lists and data specific to other countries. Google says it collected its 2023 search results from January 1 through November 27 of this year. It defines “trending” as having the biggest surge in interest this year versus last year, which is why evergreen topics don’t feature.

Google isn’t the only one to publish annual data as 2023 draws to a close, and from dictionary look-ups to music streams, chances are, you’ve probably seen other lists recapping online activity this year.

Last week, for example, Wikipedia released its year-end list of most-viewed entries, with its article about ChatGPT leading the pack. Curiously, it’s nowhere to be found on Google’s lists.

To mark the search engine’s 25th birthday, Google also released top search data “of all time” 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 Beyoncé, for example, while Portuguese soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest-searched athlete, and the most-searched movie or TV cast is “Harry Potter”.

With AP

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Matthew Perry, Tina Turner and Sinead O’Conner topped the list for celebrities who died this year, in that order. And globally Shakira, Jason Aldean and Joe Jonas topped the list of most-searched musicians.

You can find more data on what Australians searched for in Google’s full lists, including our top DIY searches (“how to make a paper popper” is top of that list, which one can only assume means it was featured in a TikTok at some point), as well as the terms we most wanted defined, which this year was topped by SNAFU (a NSFW acronym) and ennui.

Over at the search giant’s “Year in Search” archive you can find the global lists and data specific to other countries. Google says it collected its 2023 search results from January 1 through November 27 of this year. It defines “trending” as having the biggest surge in interest this year versus last year, which is why evergreen topics don’t feature.

Google isn’t the only one to publish annual data as 2023 draws to a close, and from dictionary look-ups to music streams, chances are, you’ve probably seen other lists recapping online activity this year.

Last week, for example, Wikipedia released its year-end list of most-viewed entries, with its article about ChatGPT leading the pack. Curiously, it’s nowhere to be found on Google’s lists.

To mark the search engine’s 25th birthday, Google also released top search data “of all time” 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 Beyoncé, for example, while Portuguese soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest-searched athlete, and the most-searched movie or TV cast is “Harry Potter”.

With AP