2025 Year-Ender Special: From Operation Sindoor to DeepSeek, check India’s most searched ‘What is’ questions on Google

India’s top Google searches for 2025 clearly reveal how the year will impact daily lives, with searches ranging from Operation Sindoor to DeepSeek. Indians turned to Google to find answers to new terms that confuse them but touch their lives every day. Following the Pahalgam terror attack in April, the Indian government decided to hold ‘Mockdrills’ across states; this has become another puzzle for Indians and is the fourth most searched “What is” question on Google.

Google search data for 2025 shows a mix of the ordinary and the unexpected. “What is the Foundation Law?” There has also been a sharp increase in ever-popular questions such as these, as well as highly specific questions linked to creativity, public services and personal routines.

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These studies reveal how Indians are increasingly using the internet as a first stop to solve problems and make sense of daily life. On Google in India, users searched for specific terms that continued to impact their routine lives for months, many related to international tensions that erupted in the summer.

Check out the most frequently asked “what is” questions on Google in 2025

Apart from interesting recipes and travel destinations, Indians also got an understanding of what was going on in the political landscape as the year ended with unexpected challenges. Check out the list of the top “what is” searches on Google in 2025.

Indians have also searched for the meanings of various words on Google throughout the year, but the results do not differ significantly. While he masterminded Air India’s crash and Operation Sindoor, the top meaning searches on Google in 2025 include ‘ceasefire’ and ‘May meaning’.
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2025 has been a year of ups and downs for the world, but for Indians, this has gone a step further. While every sector, from trains to aviation, witnessed major tragedies, meanwhile the country witnessed two terror attacks: Pahalgam terror attack and car explosion in Delhi. However, as we end the year on a positive note, Indians are widely searching for ‘Idli’ and ‘Modak’ recipe.