ALBAWABA - With 2023 being around the corner, Google released its "Year in Search" data highlighting trending searches, actors, people, movies, and more events during the past 12 months.
In 2022, people used the gigantic search engine, inquiring about personalities involved in major global events. Here is a list of Google's top 10 most searched personalities during 2022, collected by Albawaba.
- Johnny Depp
- Will Smith
- Amber Heard
- Vladimir Putin
- Chris Rock
- Novak Djokovic
- Anna Sorokin (Delvey)
- Andrew Tate
- Rishi Sunak
- Simon Leviev
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American actor Johnny Depp topped the list of the most searched person on Google, followed by his former wife Amber Heard, who came in third. Depp and Heard drew attention this year, when Depp sued his ex-wide for defamation.
American actors Will Smith and Chris Rock ranked the second and fifth respectively. Both were the focus of global attention following Oscar's unforgettable incident, where Smith slapped Rock after the latter made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Russian President Vladimir Putin came forth on Google's list with suggestions that the rank was due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24.
Google Trends Year in Search 2022 U.S.
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Daily relative search interest for top 5 Google search terms in different categories in the US. Search interested is scaled to a range of 0 to 100 per search term, with 100 representing maximum search interest. #rstats #dataviz #Wordle pic.twitter.com/BEghp3k50H
As for news, people searched for general topics, such as Ukraine, Queen Elizabeth's passing, Monkeypox and the Texas school shooting.
