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It’s been a tough year, and the best Google searches reflected it. While ‘coronavirus’ dominated the ‘What Is’ searches on the site, NRC, cronyism and solar eclipse also found a spot on the annual list.
We’ll take you through this.
The most searched topic on Google was undoubtedly the novel ‘coronavirus’. In India alone, more than 5 lakh searches have been performed for this query.
Users also searched for related terms such as ‘plasma therapy’ and ‘Covid-19’ during this time.

COVID-19 was the fourth most searched search worldwide in 2020.
The second most searched search on Google was ‘Binod’. People started sharing memes with the hashtag #Binod in August.

The viral trend was started by a YouTube user named Binod Tharu who wrote his first name in the comment section of a YouTube channel.

Content creators and other creative minds soon started sharing memes with the word ‘Binod’.
At the beginning of the year, massive protests in India raged about the new Citizenship Amendment Act.

Protesters utter slogans during a rally against the amended citizenship law in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi on Feb. 23, 2020

The law grants citizenship to persecuted minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Coronavirus wasn’t the only health-related topic searched on Google.
Data shared by the American multinational shows that people were also looking ‘colon infection’, after the disease ended Irrfan Khan’s life.

It is characterized by inflammation of the inner lining of the colon. More than 16 lakh Indians searched for the infection.
The ‘ Solar Eclipse ‘ on June 21 is also listed on Google Search in India.

The solar eclipse occurs when the moon is between the sun and the earth. The ‘ring of fire’ attracts millions of stargazers.
‘NRC’ or National Register of Citizens was also something Indians looked for this year.

Protest at IIT-Bombay about NRC in January 2020

A large number of people wanted to know about it after it was implemented in Assam. Most of these searches were done in the northeastern states.
Another virus reported in the pandemic year was ‘Hantavirus’. The first case of death from the virus was in China.

Hantavirus is spread by rodents and is difficult to diagnose. It can also cause various disease syndromes in humans.
Soon after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the debate started ‘nepotism’ was rekindled, with many Indians looking for the term on Google.

More than 1 lakh searches for the term were recorded in India alone. Actor Kangana Ranaut had claimed that the late actor Sushant was the victim of favoritism.
Amid an ongoing stalemate between the protesting farmers and the center about the new farm laws, Indians were curious about the same.

Farmers shout slogans during their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest march against new agricultural laws at Gazipur border in Delhi

Almost 60,000 searches have been recorded by Google since mid-September ‘what is farmer’s invoice 2020’ only in India.
‘What is Keto’ was another most Googled keyword. As people gradually established a new diet, ‘ketogenic diet’ became popular. It is a low-carbohydrate and high-fat diet that prompts the body to use fat as a form of energy and has many health benefits.

In close second came intermittent fasting, a trend endorsed by celebrities including Jennifer Aniston.

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