ORLANDO, Fla – Hurricane Irma was the most "Googled" word of 2017 worldwide.
Search interest during the hurricane season hit an all time high in September as several storms hit countries and islands across the Atlantic. Hurricane Irma became the Jacksonville area's most popular search in the history of Google.
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Google Trends provides analytics for dates back to 2004 and Irma was the most requested search not just locally but around the world. In second place was the iPhone 8.
Irma, Harvey, Jose and Maria took four out of the 10 spots on the top trending news searches of the year. Irma ranked higher than Donald Trump, terrorism, or Matt Lauer fourth place global rank.
2017 was the year we asked “how…?” How do wildfires start? How to calm a dog during a storm? How to make a protest sign? In fact, Google says these types of queries were searched at least 10 times more this year than ever before.