Google Year in Search 2021: Elon Musk among top 5 most popular personalities in India
Elon Musk first emerged at the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on January 6 acing Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos riding a spike in Tesla shares
World’s richest man Elon Musk is the fifth most searched personality in India, as per Google Year in Search 2021. Ace Olympian Neeraj Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, television actress Shehnaaz Gill, and tainted businessman Raj Kundra led the most popular personalities list on the search engine in the year gone by.
The Tesla founder & CEO remained in the headlines during the year as stock of his electric car company continued its stupendous rise throughout 2020 and 2021, jettisoning its founder to the pole position of global ultra-rich.
Musk first emerged at the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on January 6 acing Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos riding a spike in Tesla shares. Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a ranking of the world’s 500 wealthiest people.
The South Africa-born engineer witnessed unprecedented growth in wealth during the past two years commensurate with rising equity markets across the globe. Since the start of the pandemic, the SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Co, founder has seen his net worth increase by a jaw-dropping $222.20 billion — dubbed as “probably the fastest bout of wealth creation in history” by Bloomberg.
Tesla’s market capitalisation as of Thursday market close stands at $1.073 trillion while Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Saudi Aramco and Amazon are top 6 in terms of companies with the highest market cap.
Every year in December, Google reveals the top searched queries on its platform giving a global and country-wise breakup of trending searches.Google categorised trending topics based on the nature of queries into 9 lists namely ‘Overall’, ‘Near Me’, ‘How To’ , ‘Movies’, ‘News Events’, Songs’, ‘Personalities’, ‘Recipes’ and ‘Sports Events’. These lists are populated based on search terms that had the highest spike this year as compared to the previous year, according to Google.