The year has come to an end and it's been 365 days of millions of people Googling for trending topics, reading about personalities, searching for movie reviews, tracking various sporting events, watching their favourite television shows online and much more.
It's been an eventful year, one that had so much going on each day that the Netizens had no dearth of topics to discuss, share and comment on.
So, here's a list of 'year in search 2016', segregated into categories. We have listed the topics and people that mattered and the reason why they were trending in 2016:
Top Google searches
- Pokemon Go
man plays the augmented reality mobile game 'Pokemon Go'. (Image: Reuters)
Pokemon Go, a free-to-play augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic, allows players to capture, battle, train, and trade virtual Pokémon who appear throughout the real world. And this game literally took over the entire world after it was launched in countries across North America and Europe and later in Japan and Hong Kong.
Few days after it's launch the gaming app gained a lot of attention, but this time for the wrong reasons. There were concerns all across the globe that it was leading to robberies and accidents.
Recently, Reliance Jio in a partnership with Niantic introduced Pokémon GO augmented reality game in India.
- iPhone 7
Even before it was launched on September 7, Apple iPhone 7 had the internet talking. Rumors and leaks about the new Apple phone made the iPhone 7 a trending topic on Google even before it was officially launched. But the trend wasn't built to die a silent death.
After the launch, people searched about the phone's features, price, reviews etc and all of this added to making the iPhone 7 the top 2 searched trend on Google.
- Donald Trump
Of course, Donald Trump had to feature in Google's top three searches because he has reasons enough for it.
From his controversial comments to speeches during election campaigns, high-profile lifestyle to winning the US Presidential Election, people had so much to know and search about him! He is certainly the man who dominated the world of Google search.
Apart from featuring at number 3 on the list of top Google searches, Donald Trump tops the list of personalities searched on the search engine in 2016.
Top searched personalities
- Donald Trump
- Hillary Clinton
photo of Hillary Clinton. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
US Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton features at number 2 on the list of personalities searched on Google in 2016. Clinton who had been in news throughout the year, had several reasons to be on the list.
Here are a a few of the many reasons that people searched for her on the internet - her powerful campaign speeches, sharp criticism of Donald Trump's policies and opinion, FBI's reopening of its investigation into her use of a private email server while secretary of state, Presidential debate wins, political leaders and celebrities supporting her candidature as US's next President and her defeat in the polls and her powerful concession speech.
- Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps. (Photo Credit: Reuters)
Michael Phelps' past and present converged at the Rio Olympics in a last explosion of gold for a swimming icon who showed he is more than a "medal machine". After amassing 22 medals, 18 of them gold, in four prior campaigns, Phelps delivered an epic ending to his Olympic saga in Rio de Janeiro, powering to five gold medals and one silver in seven days at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. He left Rio with a mind-boggling 28 medals to his name, 23 of them gold. Also, this year saw the retirement and marriage of the swimming legend.
Top searched Global News
- US Election
The US Polls had the entire world waiting to know the results since the beginning of the year. And finally, when the results of the polls which were held on November 8, were declared, it left Donald Trump supporters ecstatic with celebrations of the victory taking centerstage.
The US polls features on the top of the global news category since there was so much curiosity around the polls that from world over people wanted to know about the candidates - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton - what had to say about the future of America, their opinion on policies both foreign and state, the election campaigns, speeches, Obamas' supporting Clinton, views and opinions of world leaders on the US polls etc. There was so much buzz around the elections that it had netizens glued to the internet searching for updates every single day.
- Olympics
Held once in every four years, Olympics is considered as the greatest sporting event. It is a platform, where world-class athletes compete to bring honor to their respective countries. And when this year the Olympics was held in Rio De Janeiro, the craze among sporting fans was at another level.
And for those who couldn't make it to the venue, Google was the only way they could keep themselves updated of the results, controversies around Olympics, best moments, visuals, pictures etc.
In fact, Olympics, is one event which people who do not follow sports otherwise like following, since its such a grand affair. It is one event that brings together people from all walks of life and even different countries.
- Brexit
Apart from the many important things that happened around the world, the one thing that was of a major significance was Brexit - Britain's exit from the European Union.
On June 24, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a historic referendum and various concerns including immigration, EU dominance, Britain's economy, what the exit meant to the world economy, UK's relations with the neighbours, Theresa May taking over as Prime Minister of UK, the way forward etc, started doing the rounds. And ever since, Brexit has been that one topic that still interests netizens. The formal process of Britain leaving the EU will be triggered in April, according to a statement by Theresa May.
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