Here ’s your2014 Google Zeitgeist , better known as the last 12 months in Google Search . The company does thisevery year , and it ’s always fascinating because search disgorge light , however disappointingly , onto what the heck mass on earth are opine about . Because when you want to know more about something , you Google it .
As with the2014 veer YouTube videoswe name last week , these searches are “ trends , ” which do n’t needfully excogitate the most searched term overall . These are the terms that exploded in popularity at certain times .
The overall search trends in the United States and globally look pretty exchangeable . They let in some of the most disgraceful and exciting news case of the year : The death of Robin Williams , the Ebola outbreak , the Malaysia Airlines disasters , and of course , the World Cup . You ’ll notice that Ukraine and Ferguson trend in the United States but not globally .
Robin Williams
World Cup
Ebola
Malaysia Airlines
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Flappy Bird
Conchita Wurst
ISIS
icy
Sochi Olympics
Ferguson
Ukraine
speak of Robin Williams , the deaths of famous hoi polloi are oftentimes amongst the most discussed stories each class . Here are the passings we could n’t let go .
Joan Rivers
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Maya Angelou
Jan Hooks
Harold Ramis
Shirley Temple
Lauren Bacall
Mickey Rooney
James Avery
Dead the great unwashed are the only single to induce a bustle . The living reign the list of trending spheric people search . We look for for mass like Jennifer Lawrence and Matthew McConaughey because we jazz them . But others show up on this inclination because they ’ve fallen into ignominy : I ’m count at you Donald Sterling .
hold off . Where is Taylor Swift ?
Jennifer Lawrence
Kim Kardashian
Julie Gayet
Tracy Morgan
Renee Zellweger
Jared Leto
Lorde
Matthew McConaughey
Amal Almamuddin
Donald Sterling
And our dashing hopes does n’t end there . 2014 ’s most veer jock in Google Search is Ray Rice , the football game champion who made headlines for physically attacking his wife .
Ray Rice
Adrian Peterson
Richard Sherman
Paul George
Carmelo Anthony
Derek Jeter
Johnny Manziel
Russell Wilson
Tony Gwynn
Tim Howard
I ’ll finish on gadgets — this is Gizmodo after all . The trending tilt include obvious trendsetters like the iPhone , but others are a fiddling more surprising to those of us who spend our living looking at these thing .
iPhone 6
Samsung Galaxy S5
link 6
Moto gibibyte
Samsung Note 4
LG G3
XBox One
Apple Watch
Nokia X
iPad Air
As a whole the trending searches paint a mental picture of human beings in 2014 that ’s paradoxically both unsurprising and interesting . We ca n’t defy our nature : Year after miserable class we ’re drive to hysteria by the same goddamn things , and every yr , it ’s fun to look back and see what drove us sore during the preceding 12 month . There ’s way more on theGoogle Search Trendspage so go hold in it out . [ Google ]
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