By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 17 Dec 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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