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Google Year in Search 2024: Stree 2, Heeramandi and Indian Premier League Top Trending Searches in India

Google Year in Search 2024: Stree 2, Heeramandi and Indian Premier League Top Trending Searches in India

From "Stree 2" to "pookie", here's what users in India searched for the most in 2024.

Written by David Delima | Updated: 10 December 2024 14:18 IST

Google Year in Search 2024: Stree 2, Heeramandi and Indian Premier League Top Trending Searches in India

Users turned to Google to look for trending terms such as "pookie" and "demure"

Highlights

The most searched term in India this year was "Indian Premier League"
Users looked up popular shows such as Heeramandi and Mirzapur
Google says the most looked up travel destinations were Azerbaizan, Bali

Google's Year in Search 2024 details are out, and the company has revealed some of the most notable trends with regard to searches made by users in India this year. Over the past few months, people searched for movies like Stree 2 and Kalki 2898 AD, while cricket fans looked up the Indian Premier League and the T20 World Cup. Google also revealed the top 'Hum to Search' requests from users in the country, as well as the top searches for memes and quirky language terms that emerged this year.

Google Year in Search 2024: Top Searches Across Categories

This year, two search terms related to cricket were at the top of Google's trending searches for users in India — Indian Premier League and T20 World Cup — while the Indian Super League also made it to the list in the 10th spot. Other popular searches among users in the country included Election Results 2024 and Olympics 2024.

Top movies looked up by users in India in 2024
Photo Credit: Google

Several popular movies and TV shows also made it to Google's list of the top searches for both categories in 2024. The top five movies that users looked up were (in order) — Stree 2, Kalki 2898 AD, 12th Fail, Laapataa Ladies, and Hanu-Man. Similarly, the top five TV shows searched in India were Heeramandi, Mirzapur, The Last of Us, Bigg Boss 17, and Panchayat.

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Google's Hum to Search feature allows users to search for songs without knowing the lyrics, by either humming or whistling. The search giant says that the top songs that were looked up this year included Nadaaniyan, Husn, Illuminati, Katchi Sera, and Ye Tune Kya Kiya.

These were the top searches for popular travel destinations
Photo Credit: Google

Users also turned to Google to understand viral memes, including "Orange Peel Theory", "Very Demure, Very Mindful", and Blue Grinch Knee Surgery". The top searches for queries related to their location included AQI levels, sports bars, bakeries, and trendy cafés. Users also wanted to know the meaning of terms like "moye moye", cervical cancer, and "pookie".

With the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, users in India looked up several travel destinations on Google this year, and the top five searches included Azerbaijan, Bali, Manali, Kazakhstan, and Jaipur. Google also says that some of the most looked up recipes included mango pickle, kanji, charnamrit, dhaniya panjiri, ughadi pachadi, and shankarpali.

Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank

Release Date 15 August 2024
Language Hindi
Genre Comedy, Horror
Cast
Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee, Aparshakti Khurana
Director
Amar Kaushik
Producer
Jyoti Deshpande, Dinesh Vijan

Kalki 2898 AD

Release Date 27 June 2024
Language Telugu, Hindi
Genre Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cast
Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Disha Patani, Kamal Haasan
Director
Nag Ashwin
Producer
C. Aswani Dutt, Swapna Dutt, Priyanka Dutt

12th Fail

Release Date 27 October 2023
Language Hindi
Genre Drama
Cast
Vikrant Massey, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Anant Joshi, Anshuman Pushkar, Harish Khanna, Sanjay Bishnoi, Sukumar Tudu, Medha Shankar, Suraj Naagar
Director
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Producer
Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Laapataa Ladies

Release Date 1 March 2024
Language Hindi
Genre Comedy, Drama
Cast
Chhaya Kadam, Ravi Kishan, Sparsh Srivastav, Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta, Satendra Soni, Hemant Soni, Pranjal Pateriya
Director
Kiran Rao
Producer
Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao

Hanu-Man

Release Date 12 January 2024
Language Telugu
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast
Teja Sajja, Amritha Aiyer, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Vinay Rai, Vennela Kishore, Satya, Getup Srinu, Deepak Shetty, Ravi Teja
Director
Prasanth Varma
Producer
K. Niranjan Reddy

Heeramandi Season 2

Genre Drama, History, Romance
Director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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Mirzapur Season 3

Release Date 5 July 2024
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Cast
Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Rasika Dugal, Vijay Verma, Harshita Gaur, Anjum Sharma, Priyanshu Painyuli, Sheeba Chadha, Rajesh Tailang
Director
Gurmmeet Singh, Anand Iyer
Producer
Gurmmeet Singh, Kassim Jagmagia, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar

The Last of Us Season 2

Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
Cast
Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Catherine O'Hara, Kaitlyn Dever
Director
Mark Mylod, Neil Druckmann, Peter Hoar, Craig Mazin, Kate Herron, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Stephen Williams

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Panchayat Season 3

Release Date 28 May 2024
Genre Comedy, Drama
Cast
Jitendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Sanvikaa, Durgesh Kumar, Ashok Pathak, Pankaj Jha, Gaurav Singh, Sunita Rajwar, Tripti Sahu, Shrikant Verma, Kusum Shastri
Director
Deepak Kumar Mishra
Producer
Shreyansh Pandey, Vijay Koshy

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