Google: The Year in Search 2018

Dec 12, 2018 - 7:22 am 0 by
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Google Year In Search 2018

Google has published their annual "Year in Search" - their old Google digest, which sums up the most searched for keyword phrases over 2018. To be clear, these are top trending searches, which takes into account an increase in interest from 2017 to 2018 around a specific topic.

Here is their good feeling video summing up the year:

The World Cup and Meghan Markle pretty much dominated all the charts. But you can see the interactive search trends for the year, with tons of ways to slice and dice them over here.

I hope this makes you smile.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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