Google's 25th Anniversary Video Reveals Top Search Trends and Most Searched Museums
Google celebrated its 25th anniversary with a video summarizing search trends from 1997 to 2023. The video, titled #YearinSearch, highlights the most searched figures and moments, including athletes, musicians, toys, cartoons, challenges, parades, and world records. For 2023, global searches were dominated by the Gaza conflict, while American football player Damar Hamlin was the most searched person, and Shakira topped music searches. The most searched museums worldwide are led by the Louvre, British Museum, and Musée d'Orsay, with no Italian museums in the top ten. In Italy, tennis player Jannik Sinner was the most searched person, Oppenheimer beat Barbie in films, and Rosa Chemical led music. The most searched terms in Italy included Hamas, diastasi addominali, Kibbutz, 41 bis, Codacons, CNEL, Hangover, Chat GPT, Striscia di Gaza, and Ittero. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and launched on September 15, 1997.
Key facts
- Google launched on September 15, 1997.
- Google published a 4-minute video for its 25th anniversary.
- The video shows search trends from 1997 to 2023.
- In 2023, the Gaza conflict was the top global news search.
- Damar Hamlin was the most searched person globally in 2023.
- Shakira was the most searched musician globally in 2023.
- Top 10 most searched museums: Louvre, British Museum, Musée d'Orsay, Natural History Museum, teamLab Planets, Rijksmuseum, Museo del Prado, Van Gogh Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Anne Frank House.
- In Italy, Jannik Sinner was the most searched person in 2023.
- Oppenheimer was the most searched film in Italy in 2023.
- Rosa Chemical was the most searched musician in Italy in 2023.
- Top searched terms in Italy 2023: Hamas, diastasi addominale, Kibbutz, 41 bis, Codacons, CNEL, Hangover, Chat GPT, Striscia di Gaza, Ittero.
Entities
Artists
- Shakira
- Rosa Chemical
Institutions
- Louvre Museum
- British Museum
- Musée d'Orsay
- Natural History Museum
- teamLab Planets
- Rijksmuseum
- Museo Nacional del Prado
- Van Gogh Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Anne Frank House
- Artribune
Locations
- Mountain View
- Paris
- France
- London
- United Kingdom
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Amsterdam
- Netherlands
- Madrid
- Spain
- New York
- United States
- Rome
- Italy