2022 Popular Keywords Review: Taiwan Star's Massive Disconnection and NAC Cough Medicine Rumor Becomes a Hot Search
As we approach the end of 2022, let's take a look back at the year with Google's daily trending keywords 2022 Popular Keywords Review: Taiwan Star's Massive Disconnection and NAC Cough Medicine Rumor Becomes a Hot Search
As we approach the end of 2022, let's take a look back at the year with Google's daily trending keywords.
This article reviews the events that drew everyone's attention in May 2022. Compared to the previous months, May did not have any events with over a million searches in a single day. The highest was the "Uniform Invoices" on May 25th, with over 500,000 searches. "Uniform Invoices" became a popular keyword every two months when the prize winners were announced.
After the outbreak of the Omicron variant in Taiwan in April, the daily number of confirmed cases continued to rise in May, reaching over 80,000 daily cases by the end of the month.
To understand relevant diagnosis and vaccine information, related keywords continued to appear in the daily trending searches of this month, including "high-end," "fourth dose," "school closure criteria," "vaccination in Tainan," "PCR clinics," and "NAC cough medicine" (rumored to reduce mortality rate).
The graph below shows the changes in Taiwan and Japan's confirmed cases from January to May 2022. There were three days with keywords surpassing 200,000 searches. Firstly, on May 1st, the income tax filing season began, making "tax filing" the most popular search term of the day. Then, on May 9th, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in Hualien, causing tremors of intensity 1-3 in the northern part of Taiwan, making "earthquake" the most popular search term.
On the following day, May 10th, Taiwan Star experienced a nationwide disconnection due to a power outage in the area where its data center was located. In addition, reports of monkeypox cases, which were previously only prevalent in Africa, began to emerge in European and American countries, with over 100 cases by the end of the month. The graph below shows the global monkeypox situation as of May 23rd. In terms of movies, "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" were released, becoming popular movie search terms.
In sports, this month marked the NBA playoffs, making related team and matchup information the sought-after information. Popular keywords included "Warriors," "Grizzlies vs. Warriors," "Heat vs. Celtics," and "Warriors vs. Grizzlies." In education, both Taiwan's National University and Huaxia University made headlines with news of closures and admissions suspensions.
Updates on well-known figures remained in the public's attention, including "Thin Man's marriage," "Kim Tae-ri winning the Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Actress," "Jay Chou and Hannah Quinlivan's third child's birth," "Elva Hsiao and Kai Ko's breakup," "Yang Mi and Bai Yun announcing and quickly ending their relationship," "Gino's Junyo's conviction for sexually assaulting a live streamer," "Cyndi Wang's performance of a hit song on a Chinese variety show going viral again," "Sodagreen reclaiming trademark rights," "Guo Yanjun's controversial post 'So many children just leave like this,'" "Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard's courtroom battle live stream causing a stir," "Hsu Chiao-hsin being exposed for illegally parking and pressuring a police officer not to issue a ticket," and "Tai Tzu-ying winning the BWF World Tour Super 1000 title this season."
In terms of finance and economy, two events became hot topics: the collapse and drastic drop of Luna Coin by 99% and the record-high cash dividend distribution of Cathay Sustainable High Dividend ETF (00878). Another interesting keyword of the month was "Askew," which means tilted or skewed. On May 2nd, it became a trending keyword when someone discovered that when searching for "Askew" on Google, the entire search results page would tilt. (Click here to see the tilted Google search page). This article's data comes from "Google Trends" and its "Daily Search Trends" feature. According to Google, "Daily Search Trends" highlights search terms that have had a significant increase in traffic over the past 24 hours, and the data is updated hourly.
This search trend data shows specific queries and their actual search volume. The information is based on the period from January to December and is sourced from "Google Search Trends."