Which questions were the most Googled in 2022? What trends were we interested in? Which TV series, actors and musicians were top of our search bar criteria?
Here’s a summary of Google’s 2022 in search.
The video is rousing too, a great two minute watch.
Andy
I read a tweet the other day that mentioned Overton Window. Not only a great name for a Eton school leaver, an Overton Window describes how public opinion is nudged along a spectrum so that something unthinkable becomes, at the very least, up for discussion. I know readers of my weekly Rambling On email are…
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It goes without saying that giving feedback is something you should be doing all year long, but it seems to me that the run up to the Christmas break provides lots of special and deliberate opportunities to express gratitude and deliver heartfelt thank yous to your team. You might already have dropped an annual bonus,…