Australia's most-Googled terms of the last 20 years
The internet search habits of Australians over two decades have revealed some interesting facts, including Covid news, rain predictions and instructions on how to make the perfect tomahawk steak.
Google have released the fascinating search engine trends since it entered the Australian market 20 years ago. Aussies have googled “Covid news” more than any other topic in the past twenty years, closely followed by “Trump news”.
In January 2020, searches for “bushfires” and “air quality” also reached record highs.
“Bush fire” and “flood” have dominated the natural disaster searches in the past two decades, with this years rainfall spiking the highest interest for floods in Google history, following right after the 2011 Queensland disaster.
With La Niña bringing summer rain for another year, more people searched “when will the rain stop” in March 2022 than ever before.
“Time travel” was the most googled type of travel, followed by “international travel” and “student travel”.
Australia was also the most charitable country, with the most searches for op shops in the world.
The more you know!
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