Google reveals the top trending searches of 2025⁠58%

By Sophia Compton⁠77%

12/25/2025, 4:00:27 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 36.4% saturation with 249 hits. Analysis detected 730 faulty-reasoning hits from 684 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠58% (9,086 of 21,204 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.20% of the article peer group.

As 2025 winds down and the new year is around the corner, Google has unveiled its Year in Search, spotlighting the events, people and pop culture moments that prompted the biggest spikes in search interest. 
Charlie Kirk topped this year’s list as the No. 1 trending search in the U.S. 
The Turning Point USA founder was shot and killed while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, fueling a nationwide surge in search activity. 
Rounding out the top five were Netflix’s hit film "KPop Demon Hunters," the viral plush collectible Labubu, Apple’s iPhone 17 and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed into law in July. 
Other major spikes in search activity included New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the AI platform DeepSeek, the government shutdown, the FIFA Club World Cup and tariffs, according to Google. 
Charlie Kirk topped this year’s list as the No. 1 trending search in the U.S. 
The Turning Point USA founder was shot and killed while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) 
Top trending U.S. searches of 2025 
1. Charlie Kirk 
2. "KPop Demon Hunters" 
3. Labubu 
4. iPhone 17 
5. One Big Beautiful Bill Act 
6. Zohran Mamdani 
7. DeepSeek 
8. Government shutdown 
9. FIFA Club World Cup 
10. Tariffs 
Top trending U.S. news searches 
1. One Big Beautiful Bill Act 
2. Government shutdown 
3. Charlie Kirk assassination 
4. Tariffs 
5. No Kings protest 
6. Los Angeles fires 
7. New Pope chosen 
8. Epstein files 
9. U.S. presidential inauguration 
10. Hurricane Melissa 
Top trending people searches 
1. Zohran Mamdani 
2. Tyler Robinson 
3. d4vd 
4. Erika Kirk 
5. Pope Leo XIV 
6. Shedeur Sanders 
7. Bonnie Blue 
8. Karoline Leavitt 
9. Andy Byron 
10. Jimmy Kimmel 
Top trending movies searches 
A visitor holds leaflets at a "KPop Demon Hunters" themed zone at the Everland Resort, South Korea's largest theme park, in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province on Sept. 30, 2025. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) 
1. "KPop Demon Hunters" 
2. "Sinners" 
3. "The Minecraft Movie" 
4. "Happy Gilmore 2" 
5. "Thunderbolts*" 
6. "F1" 
7. "Jurassic World Rebirth" 
8. "Final Destination Bloodlines" 
9. "Weapons" 
10. "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" 
Top trending searches of passings: 
1. Charlie Kirk 
2. Gene Hackman 
3. Ozzy Osbourne 
4. Anne Burrell 
5. Diane Keaton 
6. Michelle Trachtenberg 
7. Pope Francis 
8. Hulk Hogan 
9. Malcolm-Jamal Warner 
10. Val Kilmer 
Top trending actors searches 
1. Pedro Pascal 
2. Malachi Barton 
3. Walton Goggins 
4. Pamela Anderson 
5. Charlie Sheen 
6. Eric Dane 
7. Mikey Madison 
8. Aubrey Plaza 
9. Adam Sandler 
10. Justin Baldoni 
Top trending athletes searches 
Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) enters the field before the game between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams at Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. 23, 2025. (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images) 
1. Shedeur Sanders 
2. Terence Crawford 
3. Cooper Flagg 
4. Cam Skattebo 
5. Micah Parsons 
6. Jaxson Dart 
7. Sophie Cunningham 
8. Shilo Sanders 
9. Jalen Carter 
10. Justin Rose 
Top trending musicians searches 
1. d4vd 
2. KATSEYE 
3. Bad Bunny 
4. Sombr 
5. Doechii 
6. Jonas Brothers 
7. Alex Warren 
8. Coldplay 
9. NBA YoungBoy 
10. Benson Boone 
Top trending TV show searches 
1. "The Hunting Wives" 
2. "The White Lotus" 
3. "The Pitt" 
4. "The Summer I Turned Pretty" 
5. "Squid Game" 
6. "Severance" 
7. "MobLand" 
8. "Adolescence" 
9. "Andor" 
10. "IT: Welcome To Derry" 
Top trending podcasts searches 
1. "New Heights" 
2. "The Charlie Kirk Show" 
3. "IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson" 
4. "This Is Gavin Newsom" 
5. "Good Hang with Amy Poehler" 
6. "Khloé in Wonder Land" 
7. "The Severance Podcast" 
8. "The Rosary in a Year" 
9. "Unbothered" 
10. "The Bryce Crawford Podcast" 
Top trending "What do kids say?" searches 
1. 6-7 
2. Sigma 
3. 41 
4. Skibidi 
5. Ohio 
6. Rizz 
7. Good boy 
8. Skibidi toilet 
9. Aura 
10. Chat 
Last year’s top U.S. search trends included the election, Donald Trump, The New York Times puzzle "Connections," the New York Yankees and then-Vice President Kamala Harris, according to Google. 
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