Recipe searches on Google spike as sweet shops stay shut during lockdown
09 May, 2020
With neighbourhood mithai shops shut due to COVID-19 lockdown, people have donned the chef's hat to create samosas, momos, jalebis and even golgappas in the home with the aid of the Internet.
According to Google search trends, recipe related searches hit a new record high, peaking on Sunday, April 19. The info showed searches for 'Chicken momo recipe' spiked 4,350 per cent, while that for 'Mango icecream recipe' rose 3,250 % in April when compared to previous month.
Dalgona coffee - which became an online sensation as persons shared photographs and videos of their creation on social media channels - saw a spike of 5,000 % on how to help make the drink.
Interestingly, while cake topped the search tally for recipes during the month, persons also looked for instructions around how to make samosa, jalebi, momos, dhokla, pani puri, dosa and paneer dishes.
Coronavirus was the 3rd most searched topic in India during April - behind film and and therefore are constantly highly searched subject areas in the country.
However, weighed against search interest in cricket - which can be an extremely searched topic - coronavirus-related searches in the month were a lot more than four times that of the average monthly volume for cricket.
The state with the highest search interest in April was from Meghalaya, accompanied by Tripura and Goa, the info showed.
Top trending searches included Coronavirus tips, Coronavirus prevention and lockdown as persons searched for things such as 'new guidelines for lockdown' and 'how to get e-pass in lockdown'.
While there have been questions like 'will lockdown extend after 3 May' and 'Is AC safe during coronavirus', people also sought answers to queries like 'How Kerala managed coronavirus', 'How to clean vegetables coronavirus' and 'When will lockdown result in India'.
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