According to Google, global politics were reflected this year in Austrian searches with search terms such as “What is Hamas?” or “Ukraine News”. “International crises such as the war in the Middle East and Ukraine, the earthquake in Turkey or the imploded Titan submarine were very present this year,” said Wolfgang Fasching-Kapfenberger, press spokesperson for Google Austria, during the Google presentation here -Year in Review .
Once a year, the Internet search engine rating reveals what Austrians have most often typed on Google. The operator evaluates more than a billion searches and creates rankings based on the “most trending searches”. These are the search terms that have increased the most compared to the previous year; generic terms such as “weather” would therefore be excluded.
Gaza-moved Ukraine war
In the ‘International Headlines’ category, the search ‘War in Israel and Gaza’ pushes last year’s leader, ‘Ukraine’, from first place, followed by ‘Earthquake Turkey’. Nevertheless, the war in Ukraine continued to worry Austrian Google users: ‘Ukraine News’ came in third place and the Russian mercenaries of the ‘Wagner Group’ came in ninth.
The Middle East also dominated the questions asked to Google. ‘What is the Gaza Strip?’ was the most frequently asked question in 2023. ‘What is a kibbutz?’ and ‘What is Hamas?’ are also among the ten most searched questions. “How deep is the Titanic” was again the most common “how” question. In addition, Austrians most often wanted to know from Google: “How sick is Herbert Kickl?”, “How long is the vignette valid before 2022?”, “What is a Marxist?” or “What goes in the yellow bag? ”
Exciters: Rammstein, Teichtmeister, bite attack
The ‘Excitement’ category leads the search for the rock band ‘Rammstein’, whose frontman Till Lindemann faced allegations of sexual assault, which he denied. The second biggest excitement is “Florian Teichtmeister”. The ex-Castle actor was convicted of possessing and producing files depicting abuse of children and young people. The “American Staffordshire Terrier” follows in third place – this is probably due to the fatal bite attack on an Upper Austrian jogger of the same dog breed in October 2023. With “Nehammer Video” in eighth place and “SPÖ Member Survey” in Political agitators also ended up on the list in tenth place.
Dominic Thiem “Austrian of the Year”
According to Google, the ten “Austrians of the Year” are Dominic Thiem, RAF Camora, Sebastian Ofner, Toni Gabalier, Andreas Babler, Amira Pocher, Richard Lugner, Hans Peter Doskozil, Missy May and René Benko. When it comes to international personalities, Lugner guest Jane Fonda tops the list, followed by Jürgen Drews and Taylor Swift, with Tina Turner, who passed away in 2023, generating the most searches in the farewell category, ahead of Matthew Perry.
Unlike last year, Google Austria also evaluated an economic category, with ‘Black Friday’, ‘Climate Bonus’ and ‘OpenAI’ taking the top positions. The latter caused a stir not only because of AI products, but also because of the labor disputes surrounding Sam Altmann, head of the ChatGPT inventor. With ‘Kika-Leiner’ (sixth place) and ‘Signa’ (ninth place), investor Benko has indirectly entered this category twice. However, both ‘inflation’ and ‘price increases’ are missing from the top searches.
In the ‘Climate, Nature and Environment’ category, ‘high heat warning’ is the main search term, ‘Chat GPT’ is the main search term for technology and the tennis tournaments ‘Wimbledon’ and ‘US Open’ are the top sports. events. Corona has now disappeared from the Google Austria rankings.
Source: Krone
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