'Squid Game,' Alec Baldwin among top Google searches for 2021San Francisco, United States — Google reported Wednesday its most popular search terms in 2021 include "Squid Game," "Alec Baldwin" and the cryptocurrency "Dogecoin." The top eight search terms had to do with cricket, the NBA and international football tournaments like Euro 2021, Google said. The wildly popular and uber violent Netflix series "Squid Game", a South Korean-made survival game about people desperate to get out of debt, came in ninth position. He beat out Kyle Rittenhouse, the young American recently acquitted in the shooting deaths of two people during an anti-racism demonstration in Wisconsin in 2020. In the deceased persons category people often looked up the name Gabby Petito, a young American killed while traveling across the country with her boyfriend.

Source: Philippine Star December 09, 2021 01:19 UTC