These Are the Top 10 Google Searches This Year

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Dec 9, 7:37AM EST

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Google puts out a list of the terms most searched by users each year. It offers information based on global searches and also by each country. The lists get broken into several sublists. Among others, these include news, people, athletes and babies.

The U.S. list is based on search results from the most used search engine in the country by far. Studies put its market share between 85% and 92%. The other two search engines used in the United States with any regularity are Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo.

Google, founded in 1998, sits at the center of a holding company called Alphabet. Other pieces include YouTube and the Android operating system. Other often-used product Google offerings include Gmail and Google Maps. Some of these come preinstalled on smartphones, which has built a massive mobile user base.

Google’s dominance among the markets for its products has caught the attention of antitrust authorities in the United States and the European Union. Among other things, these authorities have objected to Google’s dominance of the online advertising market.
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Driven primarily by Google’s search success, parent Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) has built a market capitalization of $1.23 trillion, which puts it fourth in the American markets behind only Apple ($2.13 trillion), Microsoft ($1.63 trillion) and Amazon ($1.60 trillion).

Alphabet’s revenue in the most recently reported quarter was posted at $46.2 billion, up 14% from the same period a year ago. Earnings per share rose to $16.40 from $10.12. Of the revenue, $26.3 billion came from Google’s search business.

The terms searched on Google over the course of 2020 show a cross-section of America’s interests. “Election results” tops the list. “Who is winning the election” ranks seventh.

“Coronavirus” takes second place. “Coronavirus update” takes fourth place, and “coronavirus symptoms” is in fifth position. In third, “Kobe Bryant,” among the most famous athletes in the world. He died in a helicopter crash on January 26. “Chadwick Boseman” ranks ninth, and the actor died of cancer on August 28.

These are the 10 most-searched terms on Google in the United States for 2020:

Election results
Coronavirus
Kobe Bryant
Coronavirus update
Coronavirus symptoms
Zoom
Who is winning the election
Naya Rivera
Chadwick Boseman
PlayStation 5

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.