With Google updating its "Year in Search" website for 2015, the circle is complete. We’ve seen the top searches of 2015 on Bing, we’re all caught up with the year’s top searches on Yahoo!, and now we get to see what the world searched for on Google.



Note: when I said that we’ll get to see what the world searched for on Google, I really meant the world. These are the year’s most popular global searches. And not all of them, I left out the boring ones.



Top 10 Trending Searches of 2015 (Global)

1. Lamar Odom
2. Charlie Hebdo
3. Agar.io
4. Jurassic World
5. Paris
6. Furious 7
7. Fallout 4
8. Ronda Rousey
9. Caitlyn Jenner
10. American Sniper

Lamar also takes the top spot in the US list of Top 10 Trending Searches of 2015. On top of that, he’s number 1 on the Top Trending People list, the global as well as the US version. And that’s not all. Lamar was one of the most popular celebrities on Yahoo and he also made Bing’s list of top celebrity moments (he collapsed in a Las Vegas brothel).




Top 10 Trending News of 2015 (Global)

1. Charlie Hebdo
2. Paris
3. Hurricane Patricia
4. Isis
5. Nepal
6. El Chapo
7. Greece
8. Baltimore Riots
9. San Bernardino
10. Hurricane Joaquin

After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, Google showed solidarity by posting the “Je Suis Charlie” message on Google France. Apple also posted the message on Apple France. Furthermore, Apple approved the Je Suis Charlie app in record time.




Top 10 Trending Movies of 2015 (Global)

• Jurassic World
• Furious 7
• American Sniper
• Fifty Shade of Grey
• Minions
• Spectre
• Straight Outta Compton
• Mad Max
• Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
• Birdman

The movie we’re all expecting right now is Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. The latest Star Wars episode generated more than 155 million Google searches. The top question people are asking is “what order should I watch Star Wars?” I know there are (at least) 5 ways to re-watch the previous episodes:

• Release order – watch the Star Wars movies in the order they were released. Start with Episodes 4, 5 and 6, the original trilogy, and then watch Episodes 1, 2 and 3, the prequel trilogy that shows us how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader.
• Episode order – start with Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and make your way up to Episode 6: Return of the Jedi.
• Flashback order – watch Episodes 4 and 5 to get into Luke Skywalker’s story. Once Darth Vader reveals himself as Luke’s father, watch Episodes 1, 2 and 3 as a flashback that present’s Darth Vader’s story. And end it by watching Episode 6.
• Machete order – the same as Flashback, but you skip Episode 1. You won’t lose any relevant information because it’s reintroduced in Episode 2 and 3. You will lose Darth Maul, it’s true. But you’ll also lose Jar Jar Binks, so it all evens out.

Top 10 Music Artists of 2015 (Global)

1. Adele
2. Sia
3. Eagles of Death Metal
4. Sam Smith
5. Meghan Trainor
6. Fetty Wap
7. N.W.A
8. Eazy-E
9. Hozier
10. Chris Stapleton

Adele is number 1 on the US list as well, and that's not surprising at all. Google says the number of Adele-related searches go over 439 million. And her new song Hello, which is one of YouTube’s Top 10 music videos of 2015, has more than 731 million views at the time of writing this. Back in November, when I reported that Adele’s drinking got her banned from Twitter, the video had some 295 million views. In little over a month, the video got more than 400 million views. That is amazing!






Top 10 Consumer Tech of 2015 (Global)

1. iPhone 6S
2. Samsung Galaxy S6
3. Apple Watch
4. iPad Pro
5. LG G4
6. Samsung Galaxy Note 5
7. Samsung Galaxy J5
8. HTC One M9
9. Nexus 6P
10. Surface Pro 4

Three days after the release of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Apple announced that it sold a record number of 13 million devices. “Sales for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have been phenomenal, blowing past any previous first weekend sales results in Apple’s history,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Customers’ feedback is incredible and they are loving 3D Touch and Live Photos, and we can’t wait to bring iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to customers in even more countries on October 9.”


For more Year in Search fun

Visit Google's A Year in Search 2015 website to see the all of year’s most popular global searches and the year’s most popular searches in the US, UK, France, India, and many other countries around the world.

You may also want to check out

• Facebook’s most popular topics and most popular games of the year.
• Apple’s best iPhone apps and best iOS games of the year.
• Google’s best Android games and most popular apps of 2015. Also, the year’s most popular Thanksgiving searches.
• The top 12 best Firefox add-ons of the year.

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