The year 2014 is almost at an end and new year is right around the corner now. A lot of good and bad things happened this year, but as you will soon find out, people tend to focus more on depressing things. Google releases a list of the most popular searches every year, which reflects the most searched topics in the past 12 months.Here are some top 10 most searched topics lists;
Top 10 global Google searches
- Robin Williams
- World Cup
- Ebola
- Malaysia Airlines
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- Flappy Bird
- Conchita Wurst
- ISIS
- Frozen
- Sochi Olympics
Top 10 US Google searches
- Robin Williams
- World Cup
- Ebola
- Malaysia Airlines
- Flappy Bird
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- ISIS
- Ferguson
- Frozen
- Ukraine
- Elections 2014
- FIFA 2014
- iPhone 6
- GATE 2015
- Narendra Modi
- IPL 2014
- Ragini MMS 2
- Kick
- Jai Ho
- Happy New Year
Top 10 India Google searches
It is interesting to see how the Global and the US lists are strikingly similar to each other. Also note how different the search pattern for India is.
TechCrunch has noted that this is also the first year where an Apple product has not made it to the top 10 list, not at least in the US or the Global list. The iPad in 2010, iPhone 5 and iPad 3 in 2011, iPad 3 in 2012, and iPhone 5S in 2013. No apple for 2014, sorry :)
People generally have been focusing on depressing topics such as the death of Robin Williams, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, the Ebola outbreak, the rise of the ISIS terrorist group, the Ferguson unrest, and the Ukraine problem. That makes it 6 out of 10.
Flappy bird was of course the highlight of the year when it comes to mobile games. The widely hated, yet widely played game mushroomed before the author took the game down. It's replicas are still getting millions of downloads per month.
These lists are based on trending searches in the past 12 months, and are not based on total frequency.
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