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- Google has released its Year in Search 2024 results.
- The results are split into categories and by region, with the top search trends globally being dominated by sporting events.
- These are the top trending searches in terms of traffic spikes compared to last year rather than the most searched terms overall.
Such is the nature of the information age that if a time traveler arrived in December 2024 and wanted to get an idea of the key cultural events of the past 12 months, checking out the top trending searches of the year would be a good place to start. Google just released its Year in Search 2024 to give you that picture, and the results are pretty interesting.
To understand why certain people and events are on these lists, it’s important to make clear that these are the top trending searches of the year, which is very different from the most searched results. Top trending means queries that had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period this year, compared with the general traffic of 2023. This context explains a lot.