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Take a scroll down memory lane.

As part of Google’s 25th anniversary, the search engine is releasing a “Trends Time Capsule” of the most-searched topics across several different categories — like video games, dog breeds, and TV shows — from 1999 to 2023.

Google says it used internal Google Trends tools, combined with “anonymous and aggregated Google Search data” to calculate the most popular results for each year.

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