See some of the highlights below, and explore the full slate of data-including results from other countries- here. Adam Levine came in first on the list of trending musicians and bands, though that probably had less to do with his music than he may have liked. On the TV side, Euphoria and Stranger Things took the top spots. The movie winners were, in this order, Encanto, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Top Gun: Maverick and other blockbuster favorites from the year like Everything Everywhere All at Once and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever made the list, too. Other trending searches that landed below Wordle in the top 10 include celebrities who passed away- Betty White, Queen Elizabeth II, Bob Saget, and Anne Heche-as well as a couple lottery-related terms and also Jeffrey Dahmer. In other words, if you look back at these lists in a decade or two, you stand a pretty good chance of identifying the corresponding year as 2022. Go to Chromes Settings by selecting the three vertical icon ( Customize and Control Google Chrome) on the top-right of the browser. The lists, based on Google Trends data, comprise “search terms that had the highest spike this year as compared to the previous year.” So they aren’t necessarily the most searched terms overall-but they probably capture the zeitgeist of the last 12 months in a way that more perennially popular searches might not. Its influence even extended to the list of trending definition searches, eight of which were Wordle solutions (including rupee and tacit). Wordle also topped the list of 2022’s trending searches in games-and five other entries on that list were web-based guessing games inspired by the Wordle craze.

The word-guessing game, created by Josh Wardle, was the year’s biggest trending topic. Google Trends data is adjusted, so the term may be used in that region, but it’s more popular in other regions.If anything could further prove that Wordle is the most popular kid on the virtual playground, it’s Google’s 2022 Year in Search report. If a region on the map isn’t highlighted, it doesn’t mean there's no interest. In the Regional interest section, click the United States on the map.Currently, Google Trends only provides metros for some countries. Metros are geographical areas that generally correspond to metropolitan areas. To the right of the map, you also see a list of regions or cities ranked according to the term’s popularity. Hover over a region to get more details on search volume in a region. Search term popularity is relative to the total number of Google searches performed at a specific time, in a specific location. The color intensity represents the percentage of searches for the leading search term in a particular region. If you compare search terms, you see a map of the world shaded according to the term’s popularity. Darker shades indicate where your term has a higher probability of being searched.

When you search for a term in Google Trends, you see a map showing areas where your term is popular.

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