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Sports — particularly soccer and cricket — dominated Google's
overall trending searches in 2024. Copa América topped those
search trends globally, followed by the UEFA European
Championship and ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
Meanwhile, the U.S. election led news-specific searches
worldwide. Queries about excessive heat and this year's Olympic
Games followed.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump topped searches in Google's
people category this year — followed by Catherine, Princess of
Wales, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Algerian boxer
Imane Khelif, who also led athlete-specific searches. Meanwhile,
the late Liam Payne, Toby Keith and O.J. Simpson led search
trends among notable individuals who died in 2024.
In the world of entertainment, Disney and Pixar's “Inside Out 2”
was the top trending movie of the year, while Netflix's “Baby
Reindeer” led TV show trends. And Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”
dominated song trends.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Queries for the Olympic
village's chocolate muffin, made famous by Norwegian swimmer
Henrik Christiansen over the summer games, led Google's global
recipe trends this year. The New York Times' “Connections”
puzzle topped game searches. And in the U.S., country-specific
data shows, many people asked Google about online trends like
the word “demure” and “ mob wife aesthetic.”
You can find more country-specific lists, and trends from years
past, through Google’s “Year in Search” data published online.
The California company said it collected 2024 search results
from Jan. 1 through Nov. 23 of this year.
Google isn't the only one to publish an annual recap or top
trends as 2024 draws to a close. Spotify Wrapped, for example,
as well as Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster’s words of the
year, have offered additional reflections for 2024.
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