The Top Searches Of 2014

December 17, 2014 in Daily Bulletin

Google posted a list of top searches in the year so far. Andrea Chang wrote:

  • Kim Kardashian didn’t break the internet this year, Robin Williams did, whose name was the #1 search of the year.
    • Perhaps hoping that Google knew where misplaced a jumbo jet, Malaysia Airlines came 4th on the list.
  • The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge which we will soon be able to refer to as “so 2014” was #5 on the list.
  • To the frustration of parents everywhere “Frozen” came #9 on the list.
  • The Football World Cup was more popular than the Winter Olympics.

The full list is:

  1. Robin Williams
  2. World Cup
  3. Ebola
  4. Malaysia Airlines
  5. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
  6. Flappy Bird
  7. Conchita Wurst
  8. ISIS
  9. Frozen
  10. Sochi Olympics

Read other insights, and check out how the most popular searches differed in the US, and see other people who trended over here.

Source: LA Times