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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

‘When will the rain stop?’: Australia’s most searched words on Google in 2022

Tourists taking photos of the Sydney opera house and harbour bridge on a dark and cloudy day
Australians searched Google for ‘when will the rain stop?’ more than any other country in 2022. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Australians searched for “floods”, “La Niña” and “when will the rain stop?” more than any other country in the world in 2022, according to Google.

As a year of floods and wet weather hit large parts of the eastern seaboard, Google recorded more searches for “mould” in Australia than ever before.

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