What the World Was Seeking (and Sometimes Even Finding) Via Google in 2023
Wars, recipes, Brigitte Bardot, and — merci, internet — even a few vacation ideas for Hunter Biden.

“War in Israel and Gaza” was the most trending topic in news this year, according to Google’s Year in Search. Ukraine did not make the top 10, though the war in Sudan did. The most searched-for park was Barcelona’s Park Güell, followed by that obscure slice of urban green known as Central Park. The most “googled” museums were the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Musée d’Orsay, in that order — nothing too surprising there.
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