You’re not the only one who’s done some internet sleuthing to get across the major events of 2023… The Google Year in Search results are in, and here in Oz, the top news event searched was ‘Optus outage’, followed by the war in Israel and Gaza and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum results. As for people-related searches, there are no prizes there – Sam Kerr and Mary Fowler topped that list. The Royals and recipes got a look in, too – King Charles’ coronation quiche was crowned #1 in the kitchen, followed by something we’d missed – a McDonald’s ‘Grimace shake’ that went viral on TikTok. Globally, many of us were also searching for the meanings of new slang terms – including ‘rizz’, ‘it’s giving’ and ‘no printer’. Brb we’re off to Google that last one…