Table of Contents
- Introduction — What is “Year in Search 2025”?
- Overall Top Searches in India 2025
- AI, Tech & the Rise of Gemini
- Movies, TV & Meme Culture
- Sports & Major Events: What Captured India’s Attention
- Utility, News & Everyday Searches
- What This Says About India’s Digital Pulses
- Conclusion — A Snapshot of 2025’s Curiosity
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Google Year in Search 2025 India
Introduction — What is “Year in Search 2025”?Google Year in Search 2025 India
Every year, Google’s Year in Search report highlights the queries that spiked the most across a country compared with the previous year — not the usual everyday searches, but those topics that captured collective curiosity, conversation, and sometimes national sentiment. In 2025, for India, the list revealed a diverse tapestry: from cricket mania and cinematic hits to artificial-intelligence fascination and cultural phenomena.
This blog takes you through the most searched themes in India in 2025 — what dominated public interest, what shifted in digital behaviour, and what it perhaps hints about the broader social and cultural pulse.
Overall Top Searches in India 2025
Unsurprisingly, cricket continues to dominate Indian eyeballs — the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) claimed the top spot among all trending searches for the year. Hot on its heels was a technological twist: Google Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, grabbed the second spot, showing how deeply artificial intelligence has penetrated Indian digital curiosity.
Other major searches rounding out the top-10 included sports events like the Asia Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and even women’s cricket tournaments — underscoring that interest in sport remained broad and inclusive. Cultural events, films, and viral trends further enriched the mix.
AI, Tech & the Rise of Gemini
2025 seems to have been the year India embraced AI not just as a novelty, but as part of everyday digital life. Google’s own “Gemini” emerged as the top AI-related search. Alongside it, other AI tools such as DeepSeek, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google AI Studio found frequent mention, indicating a growing ecosystem of AI-powered assistants, creative tools, and content-generation platforms.
A particularly interesting sub-trend was the so-called “Nano Banana” craze — a reference to image-generation and design experiments using AI tools. Searches like “3D model trend”, “Gemini saree trend prompt”, and other creative AI-driven queries surged. The phenomenon showed AI morphing from functional tool to social and cultural engine.
In many ways, 2025 marked a pivot: from using the internet for consumption (news, entertainment, sports) toward creation — art, social media visuals, rapid prototyping, and experimentation with AI. This suggests a shift in digital literacy: more users are comfortable exploring generative AI tools rather than just browsing.
Movies, TV & Meme Culture: What India Binge-Googled
Entertainment always drives search trends in India. In 2025, certain films, TV shows, and even memes stood out. The movie Saiyaara topped the movie-search charts, while South Indian films like Kantara, regional hits like Coolie, and buzzy titles such as Game Changer and Marco also featured prominently, showing pan-India and regional cinema interest.
On the TV front, global shows found local traction too. Squid Game surged to become the most searched series in India for 2025 — a testament to the power of global streaming content and how binge culture continues to influence search behaviour.
Beyond standard entertainment, meme culture and quirky internet trends played a strong role. Searches for collectibles, viral toys or characters (like “Labubu”) and trending memes — such as the “67 meme” — underlined a growing appetite for light-hearted digital content and cultural inside jokes.
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Sports & Major Events: Passion, Patriotism and Pop Culture
Cricket remains king in India — and 2025 was no exception. The IPL’s top spot was complemented by heavy interest in the Asia Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and women’s cricket, reflecting both traditional dominance and a growing enthusiasm for women’s sport.
But sports weren’t the only major event drawing searches. The spiritual and cultural gathering, Maha Kumbh Mela, ranked among the top news and travel-related searches of the year. Millions turned to Google for itineraries, updates, and planning — reflecting India’s deep engagement with its cultural and religious roots even in 2025.
In addition, searches around elections, national events, global news, and evolving social-media-driven culture ensured that trends were never limited to just entertainment or tech. The mix of traditional, modern, global, and hyper-local interests paints a rich, layered picture of what occupied Indian minds this year.
Utility, News & Everyday Searches That Spiked
Beyond fun and fascination, some searches reflected real-world needs and concerns. For instance, queries like “Earthquake near me” and “Air Quality near me” saw major spikes, showing that many users turned to Google for immediate, practical information — especially in emergencies or uncertain situations.
The 2025 list also included searches related to health, weather, local events, food recipes, holiday travel planning, and even everyday hobbies. This demonstrates how versatile Google Search remains: whether you’re checking AQI before stepping out, searching for a movie to stream, or exploring a new AI tool — the search bar serves as a gateway to our curiosities and needs alike.
What This Says About India’s Digital Pulse in 2025
Taken together, the Google “Year in Search 2025” data reflects several broader shifts in Indian society and internet behaviour:
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- AI goes mainstream: The rise of Gemini and other AI tools suggests Indians are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence — not just for entertainment or novelty, but as part of daily life, creativity, and work. The “Nano Banana” craze turning heads shows AI’s crossover from tech-savvy users to everyday netizens.
- Continued love for cricket and sport: Despite the tech wave, cricket remains deeply embedded in Indian identity. The strong searches around IPL and women’s cricket show how sport continues to unify and engage diverse audiences.
- Blended cultural-digital identity: From Maha Kumbh to Squid Game, from South-Indian films to global internet memes — Indians are clicking across genres, borders, traditions and trends, often in the same scroll session.
- Search as need + curiosity: Utility searches like AQI, earthquake status or local events show that Search remains a tool for real-world information, not just hobbies or entertainment.
- Democratisation of content discovery: No longer does entertainment or global culture come only via TV or cinema. Search — powered by algorithms, recommendations, social-media sharing — has become the main gateway.
In short, 2025 shows that Indians are exploring, questioning, creating — and using Search as their compass through it all.
Conclusion — A Snapshot of 2025’s Curiosity
2025 was a year of variety, of contrasts, of shifting priorities. From the roar of stadiums during IPL and cricket trophies to the quiet hum of AI-powered creativity and global streaming binges — India’s search history reveals a nation threading the old with the new. The mix of technology, tradition, entertainment, and necessity paints a portrait of an internet-savvy population that is as diverse as it is dynamic.
As we move into 2026 and beyond, one thing is clear: the search bar will remain a mirror to our collective hopes, fears, entertainments — and evolving identities. The stories that dominated 2025 may fade, but our curiosity won’t.
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By The Morning News Informer — Updated 5 December 2025
