The top Google searches for 2018 focus on soccer, destructive weather, and high-profile deaths and suicides. The World Cup is this year's most Googled term. That's appropriate for the world's most-watched sport event. The second-most Googled event, Hurricane Florence, swept destruction across the Carolinas.
Number three is the suspected drug overdose death of 26-year-old rapper Mac Miller. The suicides of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain round out the year's top five searches.