2020 was rare for a dystopian novel and nothing short of it. We’d even conceive of a year like this in our wildest dreams. In a year that was full of uncertainties, Google offered the only assurance.
A big source for staying in contact with what’s going on around and how to cope with life was Google with lockdowns, loneliness, work from home and online classes. We’re taking you through what Google’s trend was in 2020.
It’s fairly clear that Coronavirus has been a theme. It is second in the top ten trend terms worldwide this year. In the trending rivalry in India, what beats Coronavirus is the Indian Premier League (IPL), because cricket is our one true love. This was followed by the results of the US Election because those who do not like a successful victory over a fascist
Again, the Bihar election outcome, the first important pandemic election, is on the list.
Without talking about all the food searches that took place this year, we cannot talk about patterns. If you didn’t put a storey about your Dalgona coffee on Instagram, you’re lying!
“However, because why not, the first spot on “How to” was occupied by “How to make paneer. We take our Paneer very seriously in India!
As the only way we knew of keeping ourselves safe in this pandemic was to increase immunity, “how to increase immunity” was also on the trend list along with how to make sanitizer (because how are we Indians without any jugaad) and how to connect Aadhaar with pan card.
For this year, our only reaction was, WHAT! So, moving on to this year’s ‘What’s’.
The one thing that left us all more puzzled than Coronavirus was Binod. The King of Memes, Binod, is a social media phenomenon. There was Binod everywhere
This was followed by the CAA. Before the lockdown, the Citizenship Amendment Act triggered massive protests across the country.
The late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s last film, Dil Bechara, was the most sought after film in 2020. Soorarai Pottru, Tanhaji and Shakuntala Devi followed up with this.
The US President-elect, Joe Biden, was the most sought after personality of 2020.
The second “personality” that was most sought after was Arnab Goswami. Also on the list were Kanika Kapoor, Kim Jong-un, and Amitabh Bachchan.
The year was truly the year of OTT platforms, with the Spanish heist crime drama Money Heist the most searched film. Scam 1992, Big Boss 14, Mirzapur 2, Paatal Lok and Sex Education are on the list as well.
