Wordle, Queen Elizabeth, how to do a RAT test. Among the most popular topics we've turned to Google for this year. Covid-related searches feature highly in New Zealand's top-ten searches, as do major sporting events, and the war in Ukraine. Checkpoint's Tom Taylor went out to get people's take on the most Googled items of the year.

Google's most popular 2022 topics - Wordle, Queen, RAT tests

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Google's most popular 2022 topics - Wordle, Queen, RAT tests

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