This Monday, Google announced the most searched terms on the internet throughout 2023 in Spain. Citizens have shown interest in various topics, with words that have been trending such as “amnesty” or “lawfare”, to know what they are and what they are. what they mean or by characters like Shakira, Kylian Mbappé or Jennifer Hermoso, although the king of the year has been ChatPGT.
The American multinational accumulates the vast majority of market share in terms of search engines among Internet users. Likewise, users have come in large numbers to find out details of films such as Oppenheimer, Barbie or As Bestas. Also to know the reasons for the war “between Israel and Gaza”, why yellow flowers are given on September 21, why Twitter has changed its name to X or how to vote by mail in the general elections.
If Internet users’ searches serve to x-ray the issues that have most interested Spaniards in recent months, the news that has defined these trends has been, in this order: ChatGPT, the 2023 elections, the Women’s World Cup soccer, Rubiales, Israel, María Teresa Campos, Shakira, Mbappé, Matthew Perry, and Marta Chávarri.
Among athletes, the list of the most wanted this year is headed by Mbappé, and after the French footballer are Jennifer Hermoso, Olga Carmona, Sergio Ramos, Salma Paralluelo, Alexia Putellas, Bellingham, Nano Mesa, Joselu and Lamine Yamal.
The tracking of Internet users in relation to television programs and series reaches the end of the year led by Temptation Island, according to data provided by Google, and below are Body on Fire, The Last Of Us, Survivors, Machos Alpha, Grand Prix, The Promise, One Piece, Mask Singer and Big Brother VIP.
And in the top ten of searches related to cinema are Oppenheimer, Barbie, Aces Bestas, Avatar 2, Fast and Furious, Titanic, The Meg 2, My Fault, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Killers on the Moon, according to the data provided by the search engine.
The demand for information to know the “why” is led by the war “between Israel and Gaza”, and then Internet users have wondered above all why yellow flowers are given on September 21; why Twitter is called X; why the general elections were brought forward; why is Sálvame cancelled, why isn’t it raining; why Lara Álvarez is not in Survivors; “why don’t I get my period”, “why do I sweat so much”, or why is Ramadan happening.
The list that Google has made public includes a classification of searches related to “how”, and in this case it is headed by “how the elections are going”; “how to know if I have reached the polling station”; “how to vote by mail”; “how to apply for help of 200 euros”; “how do I know where I have to vote”; “how to vote”; “how to buy Treasury Bills”; “how do I know if I have been granted aid of 200 euros”; “what is the name of Piqué’s girlfriend”, and “how to request a vote by mail”.
The musical classification is headed by Shakira, and after the Colombian artist are María Jiménez, Tina Turner, Carmen Sevilla, Sinead O’Connor, Blanca Paloma, Loreen, Amaral, Bruce Springsteen and Íñigo Quintero.
And when it comes to entering terms to find out “what it is”, the most typed in the search engine in recent months have been amnesty, lawfare, botulism, Hamas, synesthesia, ringworm, the Kings League, kibbutz, sibo and surrogacy, according to The technology multinational has announced.
