Dec. 16, 2014

Google’s Top Searches of 2014 Are a Great Reminder of How Terrible This Year Was

By Jessica Roy

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Spend enough time on Twitter or trapped inside the hellish 24-hour news cycle and each year will start to seem like the worst year yet. But between Ebola and ISIS and high-profile celebrity suicide and all the airplane disasters, 2014 does seem like a particularly awful year. Now we have data confirmation! Google released its top searches of the year this morning, and the results appear to only corroborate that feeling: 2014 is officially the worst.

Top trending searches of 2014:

Top trending “What is …?” searches:

Top trending natural events:

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