Google on Tuesday announced the results of it’s 30 day lockdown
Search, offering a unique perspective on Nigerian’s most asked questions in the face of the pandemic
Nigeria, like many other nations, has implemented lockdowns in
response to the coronavirus epidemic. Forced to stay at home, and
often unable to perform their usual work, many people across the
globe, including Nigerians, have turned to cooking and baking as ways
to pass the time – and keep themselves fed in the absence of
restaurants and other vendors. Despite the fact that Nigerians are
also asking about information related to the lockdown and coronavirus,
they were more interested in more general current affairs topics.
Here are the Top ten trending
questions over the past 30 days:
Who is Abba Kyari?
How to prepare hand sanitizer
Where is Buhari?
When is school resuming in Nigeria?
How to draw
Is there movement in Lagos tomorrow?
When is WEAC starting?
When is Ramadan 2020 starting?
Is there a cure for coronavirus?
How to lose weight
Top ten trending food questions over the past 30 days:
How to make bread
How to make pancakes with flour
How to make chinchin
How to make fish roll
How to make egg roll?
How to make pizza
How to prepare vegetable soup
How to make cookies
How to make Akara
How to make Egusi soup…
Search trends information is gleaned from data collated by Google
based on what NIgerians have been searching for and asking Google.
Google processes more than 40 000 search queries every second. This
translates to more than a billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion
searches per year, worldwide and Live search data is available on the
Google Nigeria Trends site.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like
Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube.
Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
