In 2022, North Carolinians sought out entertainment close to home, pondered career moves, worked on their relationships, and considered adding new skills — like Braille and Cherokee language — to their personal toolkits.
That's according to Google's Local Year in Search 2022 results tailored for the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. area. Curious what folks were Googling across the country? Check out the national-wide results here.
These local results were shared by GBW Strategies, a public relations firm contracted by Google.
A few highlights:
- 🎭 the Raleigh-Durham area was the only place in the U.S. with comedy shows as its top trending "near me" search
- 🦐 the Raleigh-Durham area’s top trending animal was a rainbow mantis shrimp
Here's the full list for the Triangle and North Carolina:
Top "near me" searches in the Triangle
- Comedy shows near me
- 4th of July events near me
- Asian restaurant near me
- Cheapest gas near me
- At home COVID test near me
- Live music near me
- Pilates near me
- Food pantry near me
- Gas prices near me
- Shooting range near me
According to Google, "change and curiosity" were standout themes in this year's results. Here’s what North Carolinians searched for on that theme.
How to become [career]
- Medication aide
- QA tester
- Criminal psychologist
- Real estate attorney
- Driving instructor
- Cloud engineer
- Nuclear medicine technologist
- Officer in the Air Force
- IT specialist
- Beekeeper
How to move to
- Portugal
How to be
- Frugal
- A great salesman
- More environmentally friendly
- Good at shell shockers
- Content being single
- Fashion designer in bitlife
- Pescatarian
- Better lover
- More funny
- Better boyfriend
How to learn
- Cherokee
- Python for free
- Braille
- Cherokee language
- Data analytics
- Empathy
- Tagalog
- German fast
- To like dancing
- Chinese fast