Just like every other company on the planet, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. However, there’s only one that matters more than all the rest: Search.
Google today released the 15th installment of its year-end zeitgeist. There are a myriad of categories, and you can really dive in to see very specific searches to satisfy that curiosity. However, we’re not interested in “Oscar Red Carpet Dresses,” “Calorie Searches,” nor ” Celebrity Pregnancies” (yes, that’s sadly a category this year once again).
First and foremost, let’s start with the winners overall. Here are the top 10 global trending searches for 2015:
- Lamar Odom
- Charlie Hebdo
- Agar.io
- Jurassic World
- Paris
- Furious 7
- Fallout 4
- Ronda Rousey
- Caitlyn Jenner
- American Sniper
For reference, the top three trending searches the previous year were for Robin Williams, World Cup, and Ebola.
The category we really want to see is of course technology. So we asked Google to pull from the global list and here are the top 10 consumer tech searches for 2015:
- iPhone 6s
- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Apple Watch
- iPad Pro
- LG G4
- Samsung Galaxy Note 5
- Samsung Galaxy J5
- HTC One M9
- Nexus 6P
- Surface Pro 4
Put another way, that’s three Apple, three Samsung, one LG, one HTC, one Google, and one Microsoft. And again for reference, the top three consumer tech searches the previous year were for iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S5, and Nexus 6.
Below are five more categories for top searches globally in 2015.
People:
- Lamar Odom
- Ronda Rousey
- Caitlyn Jenner
- Adele
- Charlie Sheen
- Ruby Rose
- Donald Trump
- Sia
- Dakota Johnson
- Jeremy Clarkson
Movies:
- Jurassic World
- Furious 7
- American Sniper
- Fifty Shade of Grey
- Minions
- Spectre
- Straight Outta Compton
- Mad Max
- Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
- Birdman
TV:
- Big Brother Brazil
- Jessica Jones
- Bigg Boss
- Fear the Walking Dead
- Better Call Saul
- Game of Thrones
- Daredevil
- One Punch Man
- Verdades Secretas
- Scream Queens
News:
- Charlie Hebdo
- Paris
- Hurricane Patricia
- Isis
- Nepal
- El Chapo
- Greece
- Baltimore Riots
- San Bernardino
- Hurricane Joaquin
Loss:
- Bobbi Kristina
- Cristiano Araujo
- Christopher Lee
- Sandra Bland
- Stuart Scott
- Leonard Nimoy
- Zhanna Friske
- Naomi Kawashima
- Scott Weiland
- BB King
As always, Google’s Year in Search site will give you a closer look at the stories that defined 2015. Like the previous year, Google makes the trending topics of the year directly accessible from Google Search: just type in “google 2015” without the quotes to see the top trending lists from around the world.
For a complete look at the top searches, including breakdowns on a per-country basis, head to google.com/2015.