With the end of the 2015 upon us, Google Canada, like so many other companies and organizations, is using the last two-and-a-half weeks of the year to look back at the year that was. Today, the company published an overview of the most popular Canadian search terms and topics from 2015.
It doesn’t take a lot to guess 2015’s most popular search topic. After a two-plus decade playoff drought, most Canadians wanted to find out more about the Boys in Blue.
Humorously, one of the more popular searches related to the Blue Jays was “walk the parrot,” referring to Edwin Encarnation’s always-entertaining home run trot (seen below). Otherwise, Canadians asked the standard type of questions, including, “What is the score of the Blue Jays game?” and “How to watch the Blue Jays online”. Presumably the answer to the latter question led many non-Rogers customers to seek less than legal ways to watch our favourite baseball team online.
Anyone that was on Twitter during the hit parade that was game three of the ALCS will know the next most searched topic. Following the Blue Jays, most Canadians took to Google this year to find out about the country’s 42nd Federal Election (like the Canada’s baseball team, Justin Trudeau and the rest of the Liberals took an impressive lead on the night of October 19th).
The question of “How to vote?” was front of mind when most people took to the search engine, a fact that may have helped this year’s federal election see the highest voter turnout since 1993.
With Paris being the target of two terror attacks this year, the fifth and eighth most popular searches this year had to do with the November 13 shootings, and the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier in the year, respectively. Many Canadians took to Google to find out about the #jesuischarlie hashtag, which proliferated after the March shooting.
On the technology side, this being Canada, it should come as no surprise that the BlackBerry Priv was the most searched tech topic. The Nexus 6P and 5X also did well, grabbing the second and fourth spots, respectively. Many Canadians searched for Windows 10 as it creeped closer to its public release in July, while thousands also searched for the Apple Watch — increasingly as the holidays approached — and, strangely, the iPhone 6 Plus. Apple’s newest phones, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, didn’t make the top 10.
Check out Google’s official post on the subject to find out more.
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