Google has released their annual summary of global, regional, and national search queries. “Wordle” was Google’s most searched term globally in 2022.
Google’s Year in Search - ZA Trends
For Saffers the top trending searches involved social grants, covid relief, loadshedding, and monkeypox amongst others.
For the second year in a row, the top trending search term in South Africa related to social grants as South Africans sought to find out more about the R350 SASSA Social Relief (SRD) grant. Wordle, the online word game that captured the world’s attention, was the second most searched term, followed by climate change. Other top trending searches were related to the war in Ukraine, loadshedding, typhoid fever and monkeypox.
Google Releases South Africa’s 2022 Year In Search Lists - iAfrica