By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 17 Dec 2014
Murdered soccer player Senzo Meyiwa topped local searches on Google in 2014.
Search giant Google has highlighted what people looked up the most in the year that is coming to a close.
In its global 2014 Year in Search report, the giant shows the top trending searches were:
- Deceased actor Robin Williams
- The soccer World Cup
- Disease Ebola
- Beleaguered Malaysia Airlines
- The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- The Flappy Bird game
- Austrian drag artist Conchita Wurst
- Terrorist group ISIS
- Animated film Frozen
- The Sochi Olympics
The top Google Doodles of the year were:
- World Cup 2014 - Watching the game while the boss is away
- 2014 Winter Olympics
- Rubik's Cube
- Philae Robotic Lander
- Nelson Mandela
- International Women's Day 2014
- Audrey Hepburn
- Berlin Wall
- Leo Tolstoy
- Halloween 2014
Locally, the top ten current affairs trending were:
- Oscar Pistorius Trial
- Ebola outbreak
- South Africa National General Elections
- MH370 plane disappearance
- AMCU Strike
- ISIS (Islamic State insurgency in Iraq/Syria)
- NUMSA Strike
- Ukraine Crisis
- Nkandla Report
- 2013 Matric Results
The top ten local searches in 2014, according to Google, have been:
- Murdered soccer player Senzo Meyiwa
- Ebola
- Robin Williams
- Oscar Pistorius
- World Cup 2014
- Singer Kelly Khumalo, who was also Meyiwa's girlfriend
- IEC
- Big Brother Mzansi
- Deceased actress Joan Rivers
- Michael Shumacher
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