12:46PM Carole Baskin, KFC recipes and WAP among most searched terms in 2020 Google has today released its ‘2020 UK Year in Search’ results, showing the top trending topics on the site over the past 12 months. In a year in which many people’s lives have been taken over by Covid-19, it is unsurprising that many of the most popular searches centre around the pandemic. Coronavirus featured in three of the top ten trends on the site, with users searching for “coronavirus”, “coronavirus symptoms” and “coronavirus update”. But the virus wasn’t the only popular topic this year. With millions across the UK staying inside, Britons flocked to Google to search for how to recreate their favourite recipes – KFC, Wagamama katsu curry and Ikea meatballs among the most popular. Netflix shows such as Tiger King also dominated the trending lists this year, with Google users searching for Carol Baskin and Joe Exotic. And whilst some people used the site to find out how they would be affected during the pandemic, asking Google what “furlough” meant and what “tier” they would be in, others took to the search engine to find out what WAP meant, following the popularity of the Cardi B song.
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