What is the most popular google search

The winner of most popular keyword is Facebook, with over 1,102,800,000 searches per month. This is closely followed by YouTube, Amazon, and the weather, or “weather” for short.

Amazingly, many people prefer to search for popular brands than type them in direct. That’s how pervasive Google has become for us as a day to day tool.

With the help of the great data research tool Ahrefs, we were able to surface the 100 most searched global keywords as of November 29th, 2021. To keep things PG-13, we removed all porn-related keywords.

Ranking Keyword Global volume
1 youtube 1225900000
2 facebook 1102800000
3 whatsapp web 607900000
4 google 548200000
5 gmail 438800000
6 amazon 381600000
7 translate 371100000
8 google translate 314600000
9 traductor 287300000
10 hotmail 243500000
11 instagram 230700000
12 weather 156600000
13 netflix 152500000
14 yahoo 133100000
15 twitter 131800000
16 yahoo mail 130600000
17 google maps 107200000
18 whatsapp 105600000
19 fb 102200000
20 roblox 100200000
21 ebay 95710000
22 outlook 89090000
23 google classroom 74170000
24 walmart 73980000
25 maps 72110000
26 yt 71600000
27 pinterest 66510000
28 speed test 65420000
29 nba 64530000
30 bbc news 63020000
31 ikea 57590000
32 omegle 56690000
33 news 55580000
34 classroom 55000000
35 twitch 52960000
36 home depot 51740000
37 amazon prime 51370000
38 g 46310000
39 weather tomorrow 46150000
40 facebook login 46100000
41 discord 45250000
42 paypal 44350000
43 linkedin 44170000
44 tiempo 42120000
45 y 41190000
46 cnn 39000000
47 calculator 37550000
48 shein 37420000
49 fox news 37240000
50 google drive 36550000
51 target 35140000
52 eresults 34970000
53 aliexpress 34290000
54 daily mail 32900000
55 you tube 32830000
56 msn 31850000
57 indeed 31500000
58 premier league 31460000
59 gmail login 31400000
60 canva 31260000
61 office 365 31180000
62 ps5 31070000
63 f 30810000
64 zoom 29060000
65 december global holidays 28620000
66 best buy 28400000
67 spotify 28220000
68 zara 28050000
69 costco 27670000
70 google docs 27090000
71 youtube to mp3 26590000
72 trump 26510000
73 google scholar 26500000
74 food near me 26400000
75 onlyfans 26360000
76 iphone 12 26300000
77 usps tracking 25830000
78 kahoot 25810000
79 airbnb 25240000
80 restaurants near me 25150000
81 bitcoin 24660000
82 nfl 23820000
83 tiempo mañana 23720000
84 craigslist 23500000
85 apple 23430000
86 ltarget 23320000
87 nike 23270000
88 election results 23150000
89 restaurants 23130000
90 minecraft 23010000
91 dominos 22910000
92 espn 22850000
93 etsy 22410000
94 clima 22170000
95 starbucks 22040000
96 tiktok 21160000
97 lowes 21100000
98 craiglist 20890000
99 disney plus 20820000
100 champions league 20,590,000

Although this is a great list of keywords, you could almost re-title the list “the most popular brands in the world” instead. The brands are so well-known they end up searched more than many common terms — such as how we don’t even look up a “search engine” these days, we “Google” instead.

Thanks to Ahrefs for making this data easily available. We’ll be sure to keep an eye on how these trends change year over year, most likely as an index of the year’s most well-loved brands as we see above.

Google’s annual recap of the year’s top trending searches offers dozens of ideas for content publishers looking to capitalize on long-tail keyword opportunities.

Data on the top trending searches is published every year, which is interesting on its own, but you may find yourself asking “What can I do with this information?”

At first glance the data doesn’t have much to offer beyond satisfying general curiosity around what people are searching for in Google.

Take the overall top 10 trending searches in 2021, for example:

  1. NBA
  2. DMX
  3. Gabby Petito
  4. Kyle Rittenhouse
  5. Brian Laundrie
  6. Mega Millions
  7. AMC Stock
  8. Stimulus Check
  9. Georgia Senate Race
  10. Squid Game

There’s arguably not much you can do with that as a search marketer or content publisher.

Those are all huge topics, and the chances of ranking for any of them are slim at this point.

If you dig deeper, however, you’ll find the long-tail keywords people were searching for most this year.

You’ll find the questions people were asking — the things that searchers genuinely needed help with — and therein lies the opportunity.

Let’s go over some of those, and perhaps you’ll find a few ideas for your next pieces of content.

Note that these are all top “trending” searches, which means the keywords with the largest increases in search volume from 2020 to 2021. These are not necessarily the top searches across all of Google.

Top ‘How To’ Searches Of 2021

Answering peoples’ questions is the cornerstone of content publishing, so we’ll start off with some inspiration for your next “how to” articles.

If you can provide the most holistic answer to one of these questions you may see an influx of traffic coming your way.

How to help others

  1. How to help Afghan refugees
  2. How to help Texas
  3. How to help India COVID
  4. How to help toddler with cough
  5. How to help foster kids

How to be

  1. How to be eligible for stimulus check
  2. How to be more attractive
  3. How to be happy alone
  4. How to be a baddie
  5. How to be a good boyfriend

How to style

  1. How to style straight leg jeans
  2. How to style a wolf haircut
  3. How to style a corset
  4. How to style rings
  5. How to style a sweater vest

Top Recipe Searches Of 2021

Food bloggers looking for some out-of-the-ordinary recipes to write about can find inspiration in the following list of top searches:

  1. TikTok pasta
  2. Bacon jam
  3. Birria tacos
  4. Crockpot chicken
  5. Hamantaschen
  6. Squid Game cookie
  7. Baked oats
  8. Cicada
  9. Gigi Hadid pasta
  10. Smashed potatoes

Top ‘This Or That’ Searches Of 2021

An often overlooked type of query is the ‘this or that’ search.

Whether it’s how to use a word correctly, or what’s the difference between two things, the ‘this or that’ search is a versatile keyword type that offers many opportunities for new content.

Here’s what searchers needed more clarity on this year:

  1. Effect or affect
  2. Barbie, Bratz or Fairy
  3. Allergies or COVID
  4. Bones or no bones
  5. Bougie or boujee
  6. Pfizer or Moderna
  7. Sinus infection or COVID
  8. Choose Bidoof or Bidoof
  9. Cold or COVID
  10. Capitol or capital

More Top Searches Of 2021

This is just a selection of the year’s top searches, which I picked out as I felt they were the most useful for publishers.

There’s many more to discover in Google’s Year In Search mini site.

Google has also put together a video recap of the year in search, which you can see below:

Featured Image: Screenshot from blog.google/product/search, December 2021.