From Trump to Raygun, here’s what Australians searched on Google in 2024

While the US election topped our Googling this year, the Olympics, Julian Assange and that ‘demure’ meme was also high on the list

Australians may not get a vote in the US presidential election, but it topped the Google searches by the country in 2024, with Raygun, Julian Assange and the Crowdstrike outage being some of the key moments Australians wanted to know more about in the year.

The election that will see the return of Donald Trump to the White House was the No 1 overall Google search by Australians in 2024, according to the annual search results list released by the tech giant on Tuesday. US election information also topped the questions asked of Google, with Australians wanting to know when the US election was held and who won.

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