(ragtime music)
Oh, I love these things when we look back
to the last year.
We searched for...
Hope.
Malala!
Science?
We search for things we love.
We'll be happy.
Oh, Kevin Spacey.
And for greatness.
Oh, the Olympics.
We search to make sense...
Yeah, that was terrible.
That touches you.
(Obama) Here's what gives us hope.
It's so sad we're at that point of history again.
We search to remember.
Aw, Joan Rivers.
Maya Angelou.
Robin.
Aw, they'll be missed.
That's me in another 20 years!
Here we go. Ready?
Oh, how cute!
It's so nice to see positive stuff.
(voice-over) ...this comet is an extraordinary thing.
Space.
(voice-over)...that no one's imagined yet.
(applause)
Search on.
Wow, wow!
It brings tears to my eyes.
That was uplifting.
That just made me glad to be an American
and a human being.
(Finebros) So we just showed you a recap
of some of the bigger moments from 2014.
How do you feel when you watch a video that kind of shows
you what happened over the last year?
That made me feel great because so many good things
happened there.
It was endearing, it was uplifting.
So many different things have happened.
So many good things and bad things.
Scientific-wise, it was amazing.
I love recap videos. I really do like walking
down memory lane.
(Finebros) Compared to when you were younger,
is it different with how you feel every time there is another new year?
Yeah, as a kid, I guess I didn't appreciate
what the new year meant. New years now have a different meaning.
No, I look at the end of each year almost the same.
I just can't believe how fast the years are going.
What you just showed me, that seemed like 2014 went that fast.
One more year behind you, one less year ahead of you.
When I was a kid, I'd look at somebody who was 50 years old
and think, "Wow, I wonder if I'll ever get to be that old."
Now I is one!
When you get to be my age, when you wake up
and you're breathing, you go, "THANK GOD!"
(Finebros) What is something that happened in 2014
in the world that concerns you, or made you happy,
or was something you never saw before.
Not really so much has happened.
And I get the paper everyday, and it's unbelievable
the things that are happening.
What seems to get me the most is how things move fast in technology.
I am surprised that race relation have not improved.
Sometimes not a good reminder, like the Ferguson
and that situation that we have to go through this still.
But then there was the good things, like the robot or whatever
landing on the asteroid. That was so phenomenal.
That's like a science fiction movie!
(Finebros) And what is something in your own personal life
that happened in 2014 that stands out for you?
Probably my granddaughter's birthday.
I went to Belize.
I went on a nice hiking trip.
I approached a milestone, age-wise.
(laughter)
So that's standing out.
I got through the year without any major sicknesses.
Technology, medical technology. I'm being very personal here,
it's kept me alive.
Probably my biggest moment was my daughter got married.
I look at the love that they share and those goo goo gooey eyes.
It's damn near sickening, but it's beautiful to watch
and I'm going, "We did that too." And that's priceless.
That's precious.
(Finebros) So this video was created by Google,
using the data that they collect from everything that people
are searching for online.
I don't have internet.
(Finebros) What do you think about how now that there's the internet
and a search engine, we have actual information
on what the world was thinking about in a year?
Uh, I think this is a truer way of keeping on the pulse of the people.
I couldn't live without it. I don't know what
we did before Google.
That's great because the normal media doesn't really print that kind of stuff.
They're not manipulating you. It's what really happened
by the number of searches on each subject.
When something happened, maybe even like ten years ago,
it was word of mouth, or it was the news.
Now as soon as you see it, it's on the internet.
(Finebros) So Google also released what the top searches were
for the year, according to their data. So at number five,
in 2014, was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
I thought that was hilarious.
I don't think a lot of people knew what ALS was.
And after seeing all this, they began inquiring.
Well, my sister actually died from ALS.
My father died of ALS.
They didn't know anything about it.
(Finebros) Number four on the list was Malaysia Airlines.
That's really a terrible situation.
I feel so sorry for all the family.
That's a real bizarre thing.
Like Amelia Earhart, it's just one of those mysteries
that will never, probably never, solve.
I might sound kooky with this, but they gotta find that aircraft.
If they don't, then the aliens took it.
(Finebros) At number three was Ebola. What do you think
about how much of an impact that ended up having?
Oh, it was scary.
I feel more for all the people, obviously in Africa,
that are suffering from it.
Which is really terrible for the people that were involved,
but they made such a big deal here when it was not a big deal here.
To me, it looked like they was doing everything they could do
at the time with what they knew.
It's given medicine a chance to do some research,
to discover, possibly, a cure for it.
(Finebros) And number two was the World Cup.
Did you follow the World Cup?
No, I did not.
I don't follow it.
I wasn't searching for the World Cup.
And I couldn't tell you who won it.
I'm not really a soccer fan, but I watched every game.
I grew up in South America.
You have not seen tragedy until you're in one of those countries
when they lose.
Here, we have football, but they got football,
and was their football before we even had football.
(Finebros) And the number one most searched for thing
of all 2014 was Robin Williams.
Yeah.
I used to go see him at The Improv before he was famous.
Robin Williams would just go up there and just play for two hours.
Even if there were only five of us sitting there, laughing our butts off.
(Finebros) Why do you think his death impacted so many people
that he was the number one searched thing in the world?
Because it was so unexpected.
A lot of people felt he was indestructive.
But in his personal life, he wasn't.
Well, he made people laugh.
And that's the greatest thing they can do in the world.
(Finebros) So now that we're in 2015, if you think about that
from the year you were born, what does that feel like?
Un-effing-believable.
Scary.
How long am I gonna still be here?
I thank God that I'm alive.
Welcome, 2015.
I'm really focused now. I'm in a hurry to get things done
on the positive side. I really am.
Seventh grade, I actually figured out that I'm going to live
probably til about 2030.
(drumming fingers)
And, you know, it's just getting closer and closer.
There's so many people that have passed,
and they haven't even reached the age I've reached.
We get one shot,
and you'd better make it worth it. Don't get overwhelmed
by the big goal. Just go in that direction,
and stay the course!
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