{"id":110982,"date":"2017-12-14T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=110982"},"modified":"2017-12-14T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:15:31","slug":"most-googled-terms-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/most-googled-terms-of-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Googled terms of the year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google has released the most Googled terms of the year and Meghan Markle has topped the list in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s annual analysis sums up the year in news. The full top 10 is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Meghan Markle<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 8<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Irma<\/li>\n<li>Fidget spinner<\/li>\n<li>Manchester bombing<\/li>\n<li>Grenfell Tower<\/li>\n<li>13 Reasons Why<\/li>\n<li>Tara Palmer Tomkinson<\/li>\n<li>Shannon Matthews<\/li>\n<li>(suitably ranked) iPhone X<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The search engine has also revealed common questions asked in 2017, including \u2018How to buy Bitcoin\u2019 and \u2018What is a hung parliament\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The information is a treasure trove for PR pros who are either checking for their successes (FYI Wimbledon was the most searched sporting event, and Ed Sheeran\u2019s Shape of You was the most searched song), or seeing what\u2019s trended to help predict what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<p>Access to boxing matches is clearly high on people\u2019s priorities as two fights \u2013 \u2018How to watch Mayweather vs McGregor?\u2019 and \u2018How to watch Joshua vs Klitschko?\u2019 \u2013 made the top 5 most searched \u2018How To\u2026?\u2019 questions.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the information is broader but still includes news events and people \u2013 but surprisingly Donald Trump manages neither list.<\/p>\n<p>And for a UK audience, what\u2019s perhaps most surprising in light of Brexit is our place in the world (of Google); the UK election was the third most searched election, after the French and German elections respectively.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to tweet something from this article, I\u2019d recommend 2017\u2019s most searched meme, which for 2017 was \u2018Cash Me Ousside \/ Howbow Dah\u2019*.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZrtSOTGNqA8\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*me neither \u2013 even after our head of political content explained it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released the most Googled terms of the year and Meghan Markle has topped the list in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":110985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3484,7272,3531],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110992,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982\/revisions\/110992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}