Year in Search 2022: IPL, Agnipath, FIFA World Cup dominate search trends in India

Besides sports and movies, central government schemes such as Agnipath, e-SHRAM Card and CoWIN website were most searched terms on Google in 2022

Compared to 2021, which saw the worst of Covid-19 in the first half and also the vaccine roll-out in the second half, 2022 was eventful in a pleasant way in terms of globally popular sporting events such as the staging of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the country and now, FIFA football World Cup is underway at Qatar. Even, entertainment-wise, south movies such as KGF-2, RRR, and Kantara becoming pan-India successes along with the Bollywood films- The Kashmir Files and Brahmastra: Part One- Shiva.

Like the previous years, Google has come up with Year in Search 2022 edition shedding light on interesting things about what people searched the most on the Internet.

This year, sports dominated the most in the top 10 list of search trends of 2022. Six out of 10 were related to cricket, football, and athletics.

People looked up for IPL schedules and scores on Google and also Co-Win portal was the second most searched term, as the government earlier in the year had advised citizens to take an optional third (precautionary) booster vaccine dose to thwart the spread of Covid-19 infections. Thankfully, the cases have slowed down in the country.

Debutant team Gujarat Titans won the Indian Premier League championship in 2022. Credit: PTI

Besides IPL, people searched for details of the FIFA football World Cup, Asia Cup (Cricket), ICC's T20 Cricket World Cup, Commonwealth Games, and Indian Super League(Football). Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva and KGF: Chapter 2 topped the movie trend, while E-shram card was the sixth most popular term searched on Google in India. For the uninitiated, E-Shram cards are offered to migrant and construction workers to deliver social security and welfare benefits in India.

Agnipath recruitment process was carried out earlier this year in Lucknow. Credit: PTI

And in the 'What is' category Agnipath Scheme was the most popular search word. It is a central government-run scheme to recruit young soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers into the three services of the armed forces.

Even the terms NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), NFT (Non-Fungible Token), and PFI (Popular Front of India) too came up second, third, and fourth, respectively, the most searched abbreviations on Google search in India. Recently, PFI was recently banned by the union government for anti-national activities in the country.

Google Search Trends: Year in Search 2022

Ranking	Overall	Near me	How to	Personalities	Movies
1	Indian Premier League	Covid vaccine near me	How to download vaccination certificate	Nupur Sharma	Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva (Hindi)
2	CoWIN	Swimming pool near me	How to download PTRC challan	Droupadi Murmu	K.G.F.: Chapter 2 (Kannada)
3	FIFA World Cup	Water park near me	Pornstar martini how to drink	Rishi Sunak	Kashmir Files (Hindi)
4	Asia Cup	Movies near me	ई श्रमिक कार्ड कैसे बनाएं (How to make e-Shram card)	Lalit Modi	RRR (Telugu)
5	ICC Men's T20 World Cup	Takeout restaurants open now near me	How to stop motions during pregnancy	Sushmita Sen	Kantara (Kannada)
6	Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva	Malls near me	How to link voter ID with Aadhar	Anjali Arora	Pushpa: The Rise (Telugu)
7	e-SHRAM Card	Metro station near me	How to make banana bread	Abdu Rozik	Vikram (Tamil)
8	Commonwealth Games	RT–PCR near me	How to file ITR online	Eknath Shinde	Lal Singh Chaddha
9	K.G.F: Chapter 2	Polio drops near me	How to write Hindi text on image	Pravin Tambe	Drishyam 2 (Hindi)
10	Indian Super League	मेरे पास के किराये के मकान (Rental houses near me)	Wordle how to play	Amber Heard	Thor Love and Thunder

Google Search Trends: Year in Search 2022

Ranking	Sports Events	What is...	News Events	Recipes
1	Indian Premier League	What is Agneepath Scheme	Lata Mangeshkar passing	पनीर पसंदा (Paneer pasanda)
2	FIFA World Cup	What is NATO	Sidhu Moose wala	Modak
3	Asia Cup	What is NFT	Russia Ukraine war	Sex on the beach
4	ICC Men’s T20 World Cup	What is PFI	UP Election results	Chicken soup
5	Commonwealth Games	What is the square root of 4	Covid-19 cases in India	मलाई कोफ्ते (Malai Kofta)
6	Indian Super League	What is surrogacy	Shane Warne passing	Pornstar martini
7	Pro Kabaddi League	What is solar eclipse	Queen Elizabeth passing	Pizza margherita
8	ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup	What is Article 370	KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath) passing	Pan cake
9	Australian Open	What is Metaverse	Har Ghar Tiranga	पनीर भुर्जी (Paneer Burji)
10	Wimbledon	What is myositis	Bappi Lahiri passing	Anarse

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