In 2022, Wordle was the most popular Google search in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Spain. By contrast, in Germany and Italy, Ukraine was the most popular search on Google. In Brazil, Google users were interested the most in the 2022 elections.

Wordle!

Launched in October 2021 and purchased by the New York Times in January 2022, Wordle is an online game where players can play only once a day and have to guess a five-letter word in six tries. The game became an instant hit, with a surge of daily users at the beginning of the year. For instance, it was one of the most popular iPhone apps in the United States, being played mostly by millennials. Also in the United Kingdom, the game gained in popularity, with most players using the app every day.

Google search

As the leading search engine in many countries, Google is the most visited multi-platform web property. Indeed, most of Google's revenues come from Google properties, which include the search platform, the traffic generated by search distribution partners using Google.com as their default search in browsers, and the advertising on its own sites.

In May 2025, the United States was responsible for 21.1 percent of the traffic to Google.com. In terms of web visits to the search platform, Japan came in second with 6.46 percent, followed by Brazil and India with 5.58 and 4.76 percent, respectively.

Google Search Trends: Online Classroom: Google Classroom data was reported at 40.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 47.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Online Classroom: Google Classroom data is updated daily, averaging 32.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 06 Mar 2023 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 02 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Online Classroom: Google Classroom data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

In 2022, more than ** percent of desktop web searches in Venezuela were made on Google. Meanwhile, smaller countries like Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda the search traffic from Google amounted to less than ** percent.

Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data was reported at 1.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19.000 Score in 02 Nov 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 03 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s China – Table CN.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Unemployment Benefits data was reported at 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Unemployment Benefits data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 07 Dec 2024 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Unemployment Benefits data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Booking.com data was reported at 2.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 2.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Booking.com data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19.000 Score in 21 Apr 2023 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 02 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Booking.com data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s China – Table CN.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

As of 2021, Zimbabwe was the African country with the highest business-related search rate on Google, with a score of 100 points. Ethiopia and Kenya followed, scoring ** and ** points, respectively.

Uzbekistan Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Airbnb data was reported at 3.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 3.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Uzbekistan Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Airbnb data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.000 Score in 22 Jul 2023 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 02 May 2025. Uzbekistan Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: Airbnb data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Uzbekistan – Table UZ.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

The International Google Trends dataset will provide critical signals that individual users and businesses alike can leverage to make better data-driven decisions. This dataset simplifies the manual interaction with the existing Google Trends UI by automating and exposing anonymized, aggregated, and indexed search data in BigQuery. This dataset includes the Top 25 stories and Top 25 Rising queries from Google Trends. It will be made available as two separate BigQuery tables, with a set of new top terms appended daily. Each set of Top 25 and Top 25 rising expires after 30 days, and will be accompanied by a rolling five-year window of historical data for each country and region across the globe, where data is available. This Google dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery as part of Google Cloud's Datasets solution and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery

Google is not only popular in its home country, but is also the dominant internet search provider in many major online markets, frequently generating between ** and ** percent of desktop search traffic. The search engine giant has a market share of over ** percent in India and accounted for the majority of the global search engine market, way ahead of other competitors such as Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu. Google’s online dominance All roads lead to Rome, or if you are browsing the internet, all roads lead to Google. It is hard to imagine an online experience without the online behemoth, as the company offers a wide range of online products and services that all seamlessly integrate with each other. Google search and advertising are the core products of the company, accounting for the vast majority of the company revenues. When adding this up with the Chrome browser, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google’s ownership of the Android mobile operating system, and various other consumer and enterprise services, Google is basically a one-stop shop for online needs. Google anti-trust rulings However, Google’s dominance of the search market is not always welcome and is keenly watched by authorities and industry watchdogs – since 2017, the EU commission has fined Google over ***** billion euros in antitrust fines for abusing its monopoly in online advertising. In March 2019, European Commission found that Google violated antitrust regulations by imposing contractual restrictions on third-party websites in order to make them less competitive and fined the company *** billion euros.

United States Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Government Subsidy data was reported at 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 13 May 2025. United States Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Government Subsidy data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. United States Google Search Trends: Government Measures: Government Subsidy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: AirAsia data was reported at 8.000 Score in 01 Oct 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 30 Sep 2022. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: AirAsia data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 01 Oct 2022, with 305 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22.000 Score in 22 Mar 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 30 Sep 2022. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: AirAsia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bahamas – Table BS.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Computer & Electronics: Apple data was reported at 25.000 Score in 15 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 25.000 Score for 14 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Computer & Electronics: Apple data is updated daily, averaging 27.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 15 May 2025, with 1262 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 10 Sep 2024 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 08 Apr 2023. Google Search Trends: Computer & Electronics: Apple data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Taiwan – Table TW.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

As of June 2024, global Google searches for the word "ChatGPT" increased again after a slight decline by the end of 2024. Interest in the chatbot, developed by the U.S.-based OpenAI and launched in November 2022, started rising in the week ending December 3, 2022. Recently, growing demand for information on ChatGPT made the keyword hit a peak of 100 index points during the week ending on June 2, 2024. ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a chatbot and AI-powered auto-generative text system able to give human-sounding replies and reproduce human-like interactions when prompted.

Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Mortgage Loan data was reported at 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Mortgage Loan data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 23 Jan 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Mortgage Loan data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Yemen – Table YE.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data was reported at 2.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data is updated daily, averaging 1.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 50.000 Score in 30 Jan 2025 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 02 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Travel & Accommodations: American Airlines data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Taiwan – Table TW.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Short-Time Working data was reported at 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 13 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Short-Time Working data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 14 May 2025, with 1261 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 06 Jul 2024 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 14 May 2025. Google Search Trends: Economic Measures: Short-Time Working data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Moldova – Table MD.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

Based on Google searches, consumers from Africa and Latin America made up ***** of the top 10 countries with the most interest in Bitcoin in 2020. This according to information that was compiled from Google Trends, which compared searches with the keyword "Bitcoin" against searches for **** other cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Dogecoin, Ethereum, IOTA, Litecoin, Monero, XRP, and Tron. Bitcoin search interest was especially high in Kenya, whilst Nigeria and South Africa were fifth and ***** in a ranking that compares the ** different countries against each other. Note that the figures provided here were from before the surge in both the price of Bitcoin as well as the Bitcoin market cap observed at the end of 2020 and early 2021.