Towards the end of the year, Google revealed what keywords netizens searched for the most throughout 2021. Topics around COVID-19 and big horrendous events still dominate Google Year in Search 2021.
The Year in Search 2021 list summarizes the topics that were searched the most and most in a continuous period of one year. This list is not organized by search popularity.
So it's not just one spike that we continue to take, but it must be trending throughout the year compared to the previous year.
In the Year in Search 2021 list, Google divides the most searched topics into nine categories, namely Overall Trending, What It Is, Who, How, National Events, Recipes, Songs, Movies/Series, and COVID-19.
For the Overall Trending category, several major events such as the Euro Cup and the Tokyo Olympics are filled. In addition, topics around COVID-19 also dominate this list, such as the keywords COVID-19 Vaccine and COVID-19 Prevention.
Interestingly, one of the top topics in this category is BTS Meal. The collaboration menu between McDonalds and the boyband BTS has indeed shocked the internet, starting from the queues that caused several restaurants to temporarily close, to the menus being resold in e-commerce at exorbitant prices.
It varies a lot, not only from the food at the launch but also at the announcement and also the variation when the food is made into whatever people's creativity is, or even the packaging is also used as a creative thing to be talked about by netizens.
Google also presents a special category for COVID-19 in the Year in Search 2021. This list is included because it is still in the moment of a pandemic and shows how netizens use Google to recover and protect themselves from COVID-19.
The following is a complete list of the most searched topics in the Overall Trending and COVID-19 categories in Google Year in Search 2021:
Overall Trending
- Euro Cup
- Tokyo Olympics
- BTS Meal
- COVID-19 Vaccine
- Covid-19 prevention
- Google Translate
COVID-19
- How to increase oxygen saturation
- How to cure COVID
- How to restore the sense of smell
- What is anosmia
- How to read the oximeter
- What is Endemic
- Genose test where
- How to make a mask connector
- How to check vaccine certificates
- Who should not be vaccinated