Yandex named the three most popular words of 2020

The company said that the words were chosen among common nouns that came across in the current year

requests at least three times more often than in the previous one.

The list did not include situational search queries, for example, those made after a tragedy or the release of a popular film. 

The company also presented the most popular queries of past years:

  • 2011 - tablet, coupon, default
  • 2012 - slow cooker, memes, ultrabook
  • 2013 - meteorite, playcast, promo code
  • 2014 - maidan, goji, sanctions
  • 2015 - twerk, cake, slip-ons
  • 2016 - hoverboard, petition, vape
  • 2017 - spinner, mining, cryptocurrency
  • 2018 - slime, carsharing, squishies
  • 2019 - recession, postirany, lustration
  • 2020 - quarantine, pass, constitution

Earlier Google also summed up the results of the year:the company said that the most popular words in the search query for 2020 were: “pandemic”, “coronavirus”, “constitution”, “civil war”, “denomination”, “devaluation” ", "self-isolation", "lockdown", "vibe".

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