Google: what American searched in 2015 According with The New York´s article, Google released the top search terms of the year Wednesday morning, accompanied by a video stitched together from inspiring clips: France’s response to the Paris attacks, refugees navigating their way to safe haven and an adult lion bathing its cub, all of it narrated by Caitlyn Jenner’s speech at the ESPY Awards calling for harmony and acceptance of one another’s differences.
But the search giant’s lists emphasized that Americans who went online were less interested in being uplifted than being distracted, preferably by something scandalous.
Lamar Odom, who in October was hospitalized in Las Vegas after being found face down in a brothel, was the highest on the list of the year’s trending searches in the United States and globally. Mr. Odom, a former professional basketball player, got an extra surge of attention after the extended family of his wife, Khloe Kardashian (who is also Ms. Jenner’s stepdaughter), paid him a visit in his hospital room. Later that month, the two called off their divorce.
Mr. Odom was followed on the American list by two movies, “Jurassic World,” the highest-grossing film of the year, and “American Sniper.” Ms. Jenner and the mixed martial-arts fighter Ronda Rousey, whose undefeated streak ended in November came next. Paris was the sixth highest term on the list.
Americans sought out actors, not for their screen roles but for tabloid episodes. Charlie Sheen, Bill Cosby and Taylor Kinney, who proposed to Lady Gaga in February, topped the list of male actors.
By JONAH BROMWICHDEC. 16, 2015, read the complete article in the online NYT edition