Lamar Odom Is The 2015 Top Trending Search Term On Google

On the search list, the No. 2 spot behind Odom is held by “Jurassic World”, followed by “American Sniper”, Caitlyn Jenner, Ronda Rousey, Paris, Agar.io, Chris Kyle, Fallout 4 and “Straight Outta Compton”. Search volumes for Greece, after the country held its referendum, hit around 35 million.

Google’s Year in Search shows us the most popular searches and trends of the past 12 months.

Terror attacks in Paris topped the global ranking of Google searches in 2015 – alongside the public debut of transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner and the downfall of ex-NBA star Lamar Odom.

Clicking one of the cards will pull up more precise information about the trend, such as top questions searched about it, countries where the topic was most popular, search trends over the last twelve or so years, and related topics.

The top search of the year was Lamar Odom. Google does not give specific search volumes for its top trending search list, instead providing statistics for some of the year’s biggest moments or topics.

The gathering of hundreds of negotiators and diplomats aiming to save the world from global warming, might have taken place in France but the French (like the rest of us) knew little about what it was really about. Google users searched for British pop singer Adele more than 453 million times, mostly during the publicity blitz surrounding her new album 25, released November 20.

The year 2015 was book-ended by tragic events in Paris – from the shooting at Charlie Hebdo in January to the multiple attacks around the city in November.

In Ireland our most searched news story was the Rugby World Cup, followed by the case of Karen Buckley – the young Irish nurse who was murdered in Scotland.

At the end of every year, Google compiles its own best-of list, pulling together the hard data from its ubiquitous search engine. And as expected, people search for anything Star Wars in the weeks leading up to the release of The Force Awakens, and people will probably keep Googling everything they can learn about it in the next few weeks or so.