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The top Google searches of 2023.

I regret to inform New Yorkers that “scooped bagel” made it onto the global results for Recipes. Folks using Google’s Hum to Search feature are also pretty bad at recognizing songs from Imagine Dragons.

Google’s Year in Search 2023 can be filtered globally or by country and broken down into categories like News, Games, Books, and Movies. You can find some global highlights below, or check out the top results from the last 25 years.

A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for news.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for movies.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for recipes.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for TV shows.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for video games.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for celebrity passings.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for songs.
A screenshot taken from Google’s Year in Search 2023 depicting the top results for Hum to Search.
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Click through to see the top five global results for some of the more notable categories.
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