Google's 2017 Inspirational Year In Search Review: It's All About How

Dec 13, 2017 - 7:50 am 0 by
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Google Year In Search

This morning Google published their annual year in search review, showing the world what the most popular search trends were for the 2017 year. Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said on Twitter "this year we searched 'How' more than ever before." "The questions we asked show our desire to understand, and ultimately improve the world around us," he added.

Here is the two minute video of the review:

You can play with the year in review portal over here.

But the overall theme, as Sundar said, searchers searched how related phrases at least 10 times more this year than ever before:

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Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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