Google’s Year In Search 2015 [VIDEO]

This afternoon Google issued its annual Year In Search, which recaps the topics researched most often during 2015. Google’s accompanying clip highlights the Obergefell ruling and the increased visibility of transgender Americans. More on the 2015 Year In Search from Wired:

Of all the countless things people typed into the Google search box this year, the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo in January and the city of Paris in November topped the list. That’s not nearly so surprising as the entirely new way Google determined and presented that information.

The findings are the the result of Google’s Year In Search, which in the world of data journalism is a kind of metadata journalism—news about the news that people cared about. Google’s been doing it for 15 years, and this year, it turned the job over to Google News Lab. It created a remarkably comprehensive package, one that used trillions of queries as its data pool. The results are presented as raw search numbers, downloadable datasets, interactive elements, and embeddable components.

If you click on the first link above be prepared to lose the rest of your day.