The same thing happens every year! With December almost over and a new year approaching, the Google search engine releases the biggest search trends of the year.
And the Portuguese searched a lot of topics, especially soccer, especially the Euro 2024 soccer championship; but also the Olympic Games; and the arrival of yet another telecommunications operator in our market, DIGI.
How to vote in the legislative elections in Portugal was also the subject of searches, as was how to validate the 2024 invoices, how to make banana bread or what shisha is, and for the latter we can help you with this article.
The year 2024 in searches
In 2024, Google answered and satisfied the curiosity of many Portuguese, through their questions to the best-known search engine on the Internet.
Google Trends highlighted our interests whenever we used keywords to search the Internet, and now we’re going to find out about the main search queries in Portugal, in different categories:
How…?
This is why we use Google most often, to find out how certain everyday things are done.
- How to vote in elections in Portugal?
- How to find out where to vote?
- How to validate 2024 invoices?
- How does Revolut work?
- How do you make banana bread?
- How to make a paper carnation?
- How to prevent the zone?
- How do I know where to vote in the European elections?
- How to eat tamarind?
- How to vote in advance?
What…?
Just as we ask how, we also like to know what the things we hear about every day are.
- What is Mormon?
- What is shisha?
- What is world coin?
- What is intersex?
- What is lobbying?
- What is probation?
- What is fascism?
- What is a 6×1 scale?
- What is it manager?
- What is cisgender?
International personalities
Since we’re very snoopy, we wanted to find out more about these people online, especially about the state of health of Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, Donald Trump’s run for the White House and boxing champion Mike Tyson,
- Kate Middleton
- Betty Grafstein
- Donald Trump
- Imane Khelif
- Lamine Yamal
- P. Diddy
- Kamala Harris
- Joe Biden
- Mike Tyson
- Rebeca Andrade
National personalities
But we don’t want to know more about who is best known abroad. Here at home there is also a lot of research on our fellow countrymen, especially in politics, music and television.
- José Castelo Branco
- Ruben Amorim
- Miguel Bravo
- Pedro Nuno Santos
- Diogo Ribeiro
- Luís Montenegro
- Fernando Madureira
- Bruno Lage
- André Ventura
- João Monteiro
Shows, series and movies
The last category of research is dedicated exclusively to entertainment, and here we couldn’t be more eclectic, with movies featuring prominently:
- Secret Story
- Big Brother
- Funny 2
- Dune
- It Ends Here
- Deadpool
- Baby Reindeer
- Saltburn
- Oppenheimer
- Griselda Blanco
Searches in Secret Lisbon
We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to highlight our most-read articles in 2024, up to December 10, with highlights including the new store selling unclaimed parcels in Lisbon, the lands with strange names in Portugal and our little lie on April 1.
- Portugal has hilarious land names
- In this store you can buy unclaimed parcels without knowing what they contain
- Our April Fool’s lie had pastéis de nata (custard tarts ) all over it
- If you’re looking for ideas to entertain the little ones, this list is a keeper
- The return of this beach in Algés continues to make headlines
Illustrative image of what Algés Beach could look like once it has been redeveloped. | © Parques do Tejo, Oeiras City Council - As well as our 40 tips for things to do in Lisbon
- But of course, the subject of buying a house in the city was also a recurring theme
- As for entertainment for adults, this aerial acrobatics show is at the top of our readers’ preferences
- Also noteworthy was the opening of the refurbished Praça in Sete Rios
- And finally, the Winter Fair in the Estrela district, which we hope will also return in 2025
In addition to all this, we also looked at international events, such as the war in Ukraine, Gaza and Israel, artificial intelligence and the world’s greatest songwriter, Taylor Swift.
You can see the rest on the dedicated website, as the usual video has not yet been released by the Google search engine.