What is Google’s year in search and why should we care?

Google made a heart felt video about the year of 2016. It contained pictures and short video clips that showed many of the big events that happened this year, such as the American Olympics, the election, and Trudeau at the pride parade 🏳️‍🌈.

Although many things that were featured in this video were commonly know, some of them were things that I didn’t even recognize before watching the video. An example of this, was on April 8th, 2016 when the space X falcon drone ship was the first to successfully land. I had no idea that this even happened! In addition, another big event that I hadn’t heard about before was that the Cubs baseball team had won the world championships this year. It’s great to finally be caught up on current events!
Although there were many cool and heart warming things shown in this video, it also featured some weird trends that occurred throughout the year of 2016. An example of this was the bottle flip. The bottle flip is when you flip a bottle in the air and try to land it upright. It became a trend and then people everywhere were doing it constantly, trying to land the bottle over and over.

This wasn’t the only weird trend! Another weird one that was displayed in Google’s 2016 video was “Pen Pineapple Apple Pen”. This weird song was about combining apples with pens and getting an apple pen, combining a pineapple with a pen and getting a pineapple pen, then combining those two pens and getting a pen pineapple apple pen. I don’t know why something so pointless could end up being the next big trend of 2016. At least now that it is 2017, we can move on and leave our bottle flips and fruit pens behind us! Thank god for the new year.

I loved Google’s 2016 Year in Search video, but I think that if I were to make my own video to wrap up everything that happened in 2016, I would included a few more key things. The Dab is one of those trends that goes viral and never goes away. It all started in 2016 and I am hoping that it never comes back!

All in all, Google’s video was great and we should care, because it shows us that through all the terrible and weird things that have happened this year, we still have the good things to pull us through.