No year-end list would be complete without a look back at what dazzled us on-screen and delighted us musically. Here are some of the most watched, most downloaded, and most enjoyed search queries of the year.
All of these searches had the largest volume on Google.com in the U.S.
Young Hollywood
The Playing Field
On Tour
On the Tube
TV Shows
- heroes
- lost
- house
- 24
- bones
- jericho
- reba
- scrubs
- greek
- caveman
Movies
- transformers
- 300
- the simpsons movie
- epic movie
- bee movie
- harry potter
- hairspray
- cars
- iron man
- amazing grace
Lyrics
- umbrella lyrics (rihanna)
- soulja boy lyrics
- bubbly lyrics (colbie caillat)
- paramore lyrics
- lil wayne lyrics
- taylor swift lyrics
- apologize lyrics (timbaland)
- hannah montana lyrics
- girlfriend lyrics (avril lavigne)
- avril lavigne lyrics
Many search results will include images automatically, but to specifically find images for a given query, type pictures, pics, or images with your search term(s) into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
Dig deeper into what Google has collected on a given web page by typing "info:" followed by the website address into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To see user reviews, song titles, stores where you can buy the music and other useful info, type the name of a popular musician or band and "music" into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To see a list of movie showtimes for your area, type "movies" into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google search button. If you have previously set a location, Google will return movies for that locale; otherwise, specify the city or Zip code to see movies in your area.
If you want to narrow your search, Google can restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title of the web page. Just type “allintitle:” followed by the words you're looking for in the title into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To see the geographical location for any U.S. area code, type the three-digit area code into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.