Google is celebrating 15 years of Google Trends and has released the most-searched topics on its engine for that time. Picture: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Johannesburg - Popular search engine, Google, is celebrating 15 years of Google Trends. Google has released the most-searched topics on its engine for that time.
The list reveals that, among other things, South Africans mostly engage in topics such as sport, current affairs, looking for job opportunities and government services.
They also search their favourite public figures and look for food, entertainment and health information.
Google processes more than 40 000 search queries every second. This translates to more than a billion searches a day and 1.2 trillion searches a year worldwide.
Google gives its mission as organising the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful.
Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome, and YouTube, Google also plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world.
Top Google searches in the past 15 years in South Africa:
Top searched South Africans, past 15 years in South Africa:
Top current affairs search, past 15 years in South Africa:
Top job searches, past 15 years in South Africa
The Star