Every day, people enter millions of searches into Google. The search engine still dominates the field of Internet searches very clearly ahead of all competing offers. Some strings of characters recur day after day – including the search for the weather – some rise as a result of current developments. The latter can be found in the Google search trends.
At the end of the year, Google announced which search trends were strongest in different categories in 2022. These are roughly the general search trends you’ll find at the top of the gallery and at the bottom of the first table. In addition, below you will find the most searched series, searches for deceased people or questions that shot up on Google, among other things.
Top 10 General Search Terms 2022:
- Ukraine
- World Cup 2022
- Olympics 2022
- queen
- Vladimir Putin
- monkey pox
- women EM
- Nations League
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Storm gust warning
Headlines 2022
The top search trend terms from the headlines of the year:
- Ukraine
- monkey pox
- 9 euro ticket
- heat warning
- layla
- Will Smith
- Taiwan
- energy flat rate
- Qatar
- citizen money
Farewells 2022
Searches were made for these deceased personalities:
- queen
- Aaron Carter
- Anne Heche
- Uwe Seeler
- meat loaf
- Uwe Bohm
- Hardy Krueger
- Rainer Schaller
- Olivia NewtonJohn
- Taylor Hawkins
Personalities 2022
These personalities dominated search trends:
- Vladimir Putin
- Johnny Depp
- Amber Heard
- Boris Becker
- Novak Djokovic
- Finn Kliemann
- Tina Ruland
- Will Smith
- Harald Gloöckler
- Anouschka Renzi
Politicians 2022
These politicians appeared most frequently in search trends in 2022:
- Vladimir Putin
- Anne Spiegel
- Gerhard Schröder
- Sanna Marin
- Volodymr Zelensky
- Christian Lindner
- Ricardo Lang
- Rishi Sunak
- Emmanuel Macron
- Vitaly Klitschko
Series 2022
Which series dominated in the search trends:
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- StrangerThings
- House of the Dragon
- euphoria
- the watcher
- Inventing Anna
- lol
- The palace
- Moon Knight
- theboys
Memes 2022
Memes that made search trends:
- Putin memes
- Will Smith memes
- Mr Incredible Meme
- The Rock Memes
- Morbius memes
- Gommemode Meme
- Emotional Damage Meme
- Ohio memes
- Adam Levine memes
- Chocolate Lemon Meme
How, what, why? Many people enter not only search terms on Google, but also whole questions. Below are the rankings of W-questions appearing in Google Search Trends in 2022:
How questions 2022
- How old is Putin?
- How long does the quarantine last?
- How many soldiers does Russia have?
- How long does a PCR test take?
- How long is one considered recovered?
- How many soldiers does Germany have?
- How long are you considered vaccinated?
- How old is Prince Charles?
- How long does Corona last?
- How long is Corona contagious?
What questions 2022
- What are acra?
- What is NATO?
- What is an oligarch?
- What are gravel spies?
- What does 2G Plus mean?
- What is monkeypox?
- What is SWIFT?
- What are sanctions?
- What does Putin want?
- What is Pentecost?
Why questions 2022
- Why is Russia attacking Ukraine?
- Why is diesel more expensive than petrol?
- Why doesn’t Alexandra Popp play?
- Why is the sky yellow?
- Why isn’t Ukraine in NATO?
- Why is petrol so expensive?
- Why isn’t there a Bundesliga today?
- Why do we celebrate Pentecost?
- Why is Layla banned?
- Why is the Bachelorette bald?
Source: Google