Google summarizes the searches of users annually, checking what people around the world were searching for over the last 12 months.
The search engine giant has went through its records to get a picture of how people searched for things in 2015, selecting the terror attacks in Paris, the Oscars, and the Cricket World Cup as some of the year's biggest moments.
The findings are the the result of Google’s Year In Search, which in the world of data journalism is a kind of metadata journalism. Google has been doing it for 15 years, and this year, Google News Lab took over the job. It created a remarkably comprehensive package, one that used trillions of queries as its data pool, according to The Verge.
The results are presented as raw search numbers, downloadable datasets, interactive elements, and embeddable components. In its year in search, queries have been combined together to cover major events, combining varying but contextually related search topics.
Data editor at Google News Lab Simon Rogers says the year-in-search data is a mix of queries from Google search, Google News, and YouTube, Wired reported. It presents the total number of searches across all of those properties.
Google’s top 10 tech searches for 2015 are the following:
- Apple’s iPhone 6s
- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Apple Watch
- Apple’s iPad Pro
- LG G4
- Samsung Galaxy Note 5
- Samsung Galaxy J5
- HTC One M9
- Google’s Nexus 6P
- Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4
As for the overall global searches of 2015, the top ten were:
- Lamar Odom
- Charlie Hebdo
- Agar.io
- Jurassic World
- Paris
- Furious 7
- Fallout 4
- Ronda Rousey
- Caitlyn Jenner
- American Sniper