Google has released its annual list of the year’s top trending searches, and if you’re thinking Taylor Swift tops yet another chart, think again.
The person who prompted the most trending queries – i.e., had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2023 as compared to 2022 – was… Damar Hamlin.
No doubt some Googlers might have to re-Google that name: Hamlin is the Buffalo Bills safety who made international headlines nearly a year ago when he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on-field during a January 2, 2023, Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. (He recovered and returned to NFL play in August.) Coming in second in the “People” category is Jeremy Renner, who had a serious health incident of his own just the day before Hamlin when he was run over by a snowplow.
And at #3? Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end who encountered an unstoppable force of an entirely different sort when he started dating the massively popular Swift.
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