Most searched from 2011 to 2020
Analysts at Yandex have shared their “anniversary” statistics – they named the words that were most often used in search queries over the past ten years.
Yandex announced “words of the decade” in search
As noted in Yandex, compilers of dictionaries have such a genre – the word of the year, and the company also decided to “play” this game. As a result, we analyzed search queries over ten years and selected common nouns, the use of which more than three times in different years. For example, in 2012, the most popular of them was the word multicooker, in 2015 – twerk, in 2020 – quarantine.
The entire rating by years looks like this:
- 2011 – tablet, coupon, default
- 2012 – slow cooker, memes, ultrabook
- 2013 – meteorite, play cast, promo code
- 2014 – maidan, goji, sanctions
- 2015 – twerk, cake, slip-on
- 2016 – hoverboard, petition, vape
- 2017 – spinner, mining, cryptocurrency
- 2018 – slime, carsharing, squishies
- 2019 – recession, postirany, lustration
- 2020 – quarantine, pass, constitution
