Powerball & Mega Millions Both Made List Of Top 10 U.S. Search Terms In 2022

Here’s an interesting new factoid: Powerball® and Mega Millions® both made the Top 10 List for U.S. search terms in 2022.

Google released its Year In Search details this week, and this is its list of Top 10 searches in the United States for 2022:

1. Wordle
2. Election results
3. Betty White
4. Queen Elizabeth
5. Bob Saget
6. Ukraine
7. Mega Millions
8. Powerball numbers
9. Anne Heche
10. Jeffrey Dahmer

The Google data shows that searches for Mega Millions spiked in July when the game’s jackpot was on its way to $1.337 billion for the drawing on July 29. That’s the second-largest jackpot ever offered in Mega Millions and the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in the world. Two people in Illinois claimed that prize.

Searches for “Powerball numbers” spiked in November when that game’s jackpot was on its way to a world-record amount of $2.04 billion for the Nov. 7 drawing. A ticket in California won that night’s giant prize.

It’s fun to see the things that got us all talking – and searching – in the past year!

Comments

[Mary Neubauer]

Hi, Debbie. That store has seen strong InstaPlay sales in recent months, and where there are more tickets being sold, there will be more winners, simply based on volume.

[Debbie Steele]

Why are there so many $1000 dollar winners out of Sinclair in Council Bluffs? On Hit the Jackpot?