Covid-19, the top search keyword on Yahoo India during lockdown

Yahoo today announced ‘Search in the Lockdown,’ which chronicles and compares what users in India searched for right before the country went into lockdown a month ago, and new search priorities that have emerged since the lockdown began.

These trends are based on users’ daily search habits in the last one month and an editorial selection of what they read, recommended, and shared most on Yahoo. Top search keyword — Covid-19 — recorded a massive jump.

Through the lockdown, novel coronavirus related searches rose by a whopping 427 per cent. The top 5 Covid-19 keywords were ‘Covid-19 updates’, ‘Symptoms of Covid-19’, ‘Covid-19 treatment’, ‘Covid-19 death toll’, and ‘Live Covid-19 tracker.’