According to published data, the five main events that were searched in Russia also included the Russia-Belgium Football Match, the Fight of Habib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poirier, and The Fire in Notre Dame Cathedral.
“Traditionally, the“ Events of the Year ”are major awards that are repeated from year to year, and today you see that in the first place Eurovision, in ninth place are the Oscars, football matches and the world hockey championship,” TASS quoted the head of communications Google Russia Ekaterina Kondratyev.
The list of seventh place also included the election of the President of Ukraine.
According to Google Search, the category “People of the Year” includes Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and HSE student Yegor Zhukov, who was sentenced to probation for calls for extremism.
“Almost all people are public and have long been known, but if you look at three names - Zhukov, Golunov (journalist. - RT), Ustinov (actor Pavel Ustinov. - RT, then no one knew these people, except for a narrow circle”) - said Kondratiev.
The top 10 fast-growing queries in the People of the Year category was led by singer Julia Nachalova, who passed away in March. The second most popular was the rapper Decl (Cyril Tolmatsky), who died in February.
The rating also included actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, as well as TSUM fashion director Alla Verber, who died in August, and journalist Sergey Dorenko (died May 9).
The search category “Films” was headed by the “Joker” tape, followed by “Avengers: Final”, “Captain Marvel”, “The Lion King” and “Policeman from Rublevka”.
As noted, the game "Game of Thrones" topped the ranking of the most popular TV series based on a study of search queries on Google in Russia.
The second place was taken by the American TV series “Chernobyl” about the events at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, and the Turkish “Windy” closes the top three.
Last year, Google called the last World Cup the most popular event, followed by the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang.