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'Squid Game', Alec Baldwin among top Google searches

December 08, 2021 | 08:02 p.m EDT

Google said Wednesday its most popular search terms in 2021 include "Squid Game," Alec Baldwin and the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Sports were also big on the platform: the top eight search terms had to do with cricket, the NBA and international football tournaments like Euro 2021, Google said.

The wildly popular and uber violent Netflix series "Squid Game", a South Korean-made survival game about people desperate to get out of debt, came in ninth position. The American actor Baldwin, who accidentally killed a cinematographer on the set of a film in October with a loaded gun, was the most frequently looked-up personality on Google.

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