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What topped Google's 2025 most-searched list
Charlie Kirk's assassination in September drove massive public interest, topping Google's 2025 trending searches alongside political and pop-culture topics, Google said.
- Google released its annual trends on Dec 9, 2025, naming conservative activist Charlie Kirk the top search after his assassination at Utah Valley University.
- The trends mixed political news with pop-culture searches, including Kirk's widow, Erika, Netflix's `K-Pop Demon Hunters`, and Popmart's `Labubu` dolls.
- The Google name traces to a Stanford brainstorming session in 1997, when Larry Page and Sean Anderson conceived the data-indexing idea and Page registered the domain on September 15, 1997 after a typo by Anderson.
- Alongside Kirk, searches included Apple's iPhone 17, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, tariffs, the government shutdown and President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, reflecting varied public attention in 2025.
- The article ends with `And if you want to know how the rest of the story plays out, well, I guess you can Google it.` and recalls the original `Googleplex` name, derived from a very large number.
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