What you searched on Google: Top 10 topics and most-asked questions of 2023 in Florida

This week, Google released a recap of the most-searched people, places and things in 2023.

Google’s “Year in search” shows the world’s top five most searched news topics, actors, athletes, musicians, movies, TV shows, books, songs, social media trends, recipes and more.

You can filter the results to only include searches from the U.S., but not by state.

So, we took it upon ourselves to look at Google Trends for Florida and find out what residents of the Sunshine State searched the most in 2023.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what Florida asked Google this year and how to find the “Year in search” recap.

What were the most-Googled topics in Florida in 2023?

In 2023, Floridians searched for weather news more than anything else on Google. The top search topic for Floridians on Google this year was “weather.”

This was also reflected in Google’s nationwide “Year in search” snapshot, where “Hurricane Idalia” was the fourth-most searched news topic in the country this year.

Here’s a list of the top 10 most-searched topics in Florida for 2023, according to Google Trends results:

1. Weather

2. Google

3. Amazon

4. YouTube

5. News

6. Facebook

7. Walmart

8. Translate

9. Games

10. Publix

What questions did Florida searchers ask Google in 2023?

We found some of Florida’s most-Googled questions of 2023 by filtering Google Trends for the most-frequently searched phrases including who, what, when, where, how or why.

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “who”

1. Who is Erin Carter?

2. Who won the Super Bowl 2023?

3. Who is Hamas?

4. The girl who escaped

5. Who won Miss Universe 2023?

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “what”

1. What is ChatGPT?

2. What is Hamas?

3. What is Temu?

4. What space movie came out in 1992?

5. What does SOS mean?

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “when”

1. When are taxes due 2023?

2. When is Veterans’ Day 2023?

3. When is Black Friday 2023?

4. When is Prime Day 2023?

5. When does Barbie movie come out?

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “where”

1. Where is Hurricane Idalia?

2. Where is Gaza?

3. Where to watch Oshi no Ko

4. “Where she Goes” Bad Bunny lyrics

5. Where to watch “No Hard Feelings”

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “how”

1. How many episodes are in “The Last of Us?”

2. How deep is The Titanic?

3. How old is Taylor Swift?

4. How tall is Taylor Swift?

5. How old is Rihanna?

Here are the top five most-popular searches in Florida with the word “why”

1. Why were teddy bears invented?

2. Why are eggs so expensive in Florida?

3. Why are eggs so expensive?

4. Why did Twitter change to X?

5. Why Women Kill

How to find Google’s 'Year in search' results

To browse Google’s “Year in search” results for yourself, all you have to do is go to the Google Trends website and click on the menu icon in the upper left corner of the webpage. There’s a “Year in search” tab with a calendar icon next to it. If you click on that, you’ll be taken directly to Google’s 2023 recap.

You can also just click this link to open “Year in search” in a new tab.

This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Florida's top 10 most-Googled topics and most-asked questions of 2023