The year is coming to a close so Estately thought we’d look back on 2015 and see how Americans spent their time Googling the people, terms, movies, TV shows, organizations, events, cultural phenomena, and controversies that grabbed people’s attention in 2015. To do this Estately ran hundreds of search terms through Google Trends to discover what people in each state searched for more with more frequency than people in any other state.
From tragic violence and celebrity breakups to presidential primaries and space exploration, there was plenty of things to occupy Americans’ time on the internet. Read on to learn what other things—besides the terms on the map above—that each state Googled more frequently than any other state in 2015.
http://blog.estately.com/2015/12/what-each-state-googled-more-than-any-other-state-in-2015/
You have to click the link b/c this site wouldn't let me post the whole list. Here are some popular places though.
CALIFORNIA
- Kim Kardashian (reality TV personality)
- Stephen Curry (pro basketball player)
- Drought
- Water conservation
- Love wins
- U.S. Housing Bubble
- iPhone 6s
- Spy (2015 film)
- Spectre (2015 film)
- Ben Affleck nanny
- Leah Remini Scientology (actress who left the Church of Scientology in 2015)
- Chile earthquake
- Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook)
- Volkswagen scandal
- Donald Trump hair
- Donald Trump racist
FLORIDA
- Obamacare
- Marco Rubio (presidential candidate)
- Concealed weapons permit
- Trump net worth
- House prices
- Blood Moon 2015
- Whip dance
- Stanky leg dance
- Serena Williams
- Blake Shelton divorce
ILLINOIS
- Super Blood Moon
LOUISIANA
- Ashley Madison hack (online dating website marketed to people in committed relationships that was hacked and had user names released in 2015)
- Blue Bell recall (delicious ice cream)
- Greece
- Democratic Socialism
- Omar Sharif (actor who passed away in 2015)
- Netanyahu Congress (Israeli Prime Minister who made a speech to Congress in 2015)
- Julianne Moore (actress)
- Mr. Robot (TV show)
- Angela Merkel (German Chancellor and Time “Person of the Year”)
- Drake (rapper)
- Martin Shkreli (CEO who dramatically raised prescription drug prices)
- Gigi Hadid (model)
- Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria)
- Islamophobia
- Charlie Sheen HIV (actor announced he’s had HIV for four years in 2015)
- Jihadism
- Jennifer Aniston wedding (actress married in 2015)
- American Apparel (clothing company that filed for bankruptcy in 2015)
- Kanye West (rapper)
- Rihanna (musician)
- Hoverboard scooter
TEXAS
- James Harden (basketball player)
- Bandidos Motorcycle Club (a motorcycle gang that engaged in a massive shootout with the Cossacks motorcycle gang in Waco, Texas in 2015)
- Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán (Mexican drug lord)
- Hurricane Patricia
- Clock boy (14-year-old Texas student Ahmed Mohamed who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school)
- Planned Parenthood video
- Lion hunting
- Miranda Lambert divorce
- Jade Helm (a popular conspiracy theory that claims the annual U.S. military training exercise was really a cover for a full-scale invasion of Texas)
- Filibuster
- Greg Hardy (pro football player)