Unsurprisingly, a lot of leading searches in the U.S. were associated with the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 governmental election, while others focused on viral news and disasters.
The leading U.S. search engine results in 2021 was: “election results,” “coronavirus,” “Kobe Bryant,” “coronavirus upgrade,” “coronavirus symptoms,” “Zoom,” “who is winning the election,” “Naya Rivera,” “Chadwick Boseman” and “Playstation 5.”
Top U.S. news search results page in 2021 were: “election results,” “coronavirus,” “stimulus checks,” “unemployment,” “Iran,” “Cyclone Laura,” “Super Tuesday,” “stock market,” “murder hornet” and “Australia fires.”
President-elect Joe Biden was the No. 1 browsed person in 2021, followed by Kim Jong-un, Kamala Harris, Jacob Blake, Ran Newman, Tom Hanks, Shakira, Tom Brady, Kanye West, and Vanessa Bryant.
Other 2020 search trends including leading political leader searches, top film searches, leading recipe searches and top musician searches are listed on Google’s “Year in Browse 2021” report.
Google partnered with the Associated Press to show instant election results on Google Search and Google Assistant during the 2020 elections.
The tech giant likewise partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Illness Control and Avoidance (CDC) to present precise info associated with COVID-19 on the platform. Google’s coronavirus information comes from Wikipedia, federal government health ministries, The New York Times and “other authoritative sources.”