/ 08 December 2022

What we Googled in 2022

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The tech giant has released its most-searched terms for 2022, and topping the list in Oz was Wordle, the online word game that had many of us hooked at the start of the year – and kudos to those still going… And Aussies sure love their sport, with searches for terms including ‘Australian Open’ and  ‘World Cup’ accounting for 6 of the top 10 spots. News of the death of cricket legend Shane Warne was #4 on the list, putting him above late greats Olivia Newton-John (#9), Betty White (#10), and Queen Elizabeth, who didn’t crack the top 10… As for other big news, Aussies wanted to know about what was happening in Ukraine (#5), and we searched for the terms ‘floods’, ‘La Niña’ and ‘when will the rain stop?’ more than any other country in the world this year. But the biggest revelation was that the thing we were most interested in learning how to cook was… tripe? We have so many questions…

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