In charts: Google searches roughly assess pandemic years in India

Google is a noun, a verb and a portal. The key phrases we type out of curiosity are direct confessions of our insecurities

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In the three years beginning in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of our lives, many of us came to ask ourselves questions like

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The global reality of living through the years of the pandemic had a shared vocabulary. Phrases like lockdown

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quarantine, asymptomatic, social distancing were googled and quickly adapted to the behaviors.

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Google aggregates search features by time and neighborhood, and offers a yearly summary.

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Those searches highlighted the most movies, recipes, people, and events, as well as the most common questions

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Google search developments are indexed to one hundred, where one hundred is the maximum search pastime within the term

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The realization that "human beings from time to time don't query Google very much but talk confidently" makes the search engine a splendid source of information,

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