No surprise here: “Barbenheimer” led the field on the top-trending Google searches of the year in movies, while HBO’s dystopian video-game adaptation “The Last of Us” came out on top on the TV front.
The Google year-in-review 2023 lists, released Monday, are based on data about the top-trending searches in the U.S., tracking queries that had the highest spikes in traffic over a sustained period this year as compared with 2022. That’s why Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, for example, don’t show up on the rankings for music artists.
In TV, Netflix had a strong showing, with seven of the top 10 trending searches in the category for the streamer’s originals: “Ginny & Georgia,” “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” “Wednesday,” “That ’90s Show,” “Kaleidoscope,” “Beef” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
After “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” top-trending movie searches on Google for the year were for “Sound of Freedom,” this summer’s unexpected and controversial box office hit, and Oscar-winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
The No. 1 top-trending actor searched among Google U.S. users was Jeremy Renner, who suffered a near-fatal snow plow accident in January.
Here are highlights from Google’s 2023 Year in Search report for the U.S.:
Movies
- Barbie
- Oppenhiemer
- Sound of Freedom
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Creed III
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- Five Nights at Freddy’s
- Cocaine Bear
TV Shows
- The Last of Us
- Ginny & Georgia
- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- Wednesday
- That ’90s Show
- Kaleidoscope
- Beef
- The Idol
- The Fall of the House of Usher
Actors
- Jeremy Renner
- Jamie Foxx
- Danny Masterson
- Matt Rife
- Pedro Pascal
- Jonathan Majors
- Sophie Turner
- Russell Brand
- Ke Huy Quan
- Josh Hutcherson
Deaths
- Matthew Perry
- Tina Turner
- Jerry Springer
- Jimmy Buffett
- Sinéad O’Connor
- Ken Block
- Tyre Nicholas
- Lisa Marie Presley
- Suzanne Somers
- Bob Barker
Games
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Connections
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Starfield
- Diablo IV
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Atomic Heart
- Dead Island 2
- Sons of the Forest
- Mortal Kombat 1
Musicians
- Jason Aldean
- Ice Spice
- Oliver Anthony
- Peso Pluma
- Joe Jonas
- Sam Smith
- Matt Healy
- Kellie Pickler
- Kim Petras
- Sexyy Red
People
- Damar Hamlin
- Jeremy Renner
- Travis Kelce
- Tucker Carlson
- Lil Tay
- Andrew Tate
- Carlee Russell
- Jamie Foxx
- Danny Masterson
- Matt Rife
News
- War in Israel and Gaza
- Titanic submarine
- Hurricane Hilary
- Hurricane Idalia
- Hurricane Lee
- Maine shooting
- Nashville shooting
- Maui fire
- Idaho murder trial
- Canada wildfires