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Here's what Ireland searched for on Google in 2014
IT WAS THE year of the World Cup, G***h B****s, Kim Kardashian, and Frozen.
Google has released its list of the things that Irish people searched for in 2014 and some of it is exactly what you’d expect.
The top news stories were World Cup 2014, the Garth Brooks fiasco, and the celebrity photo hack. Equally unsurprisingly, Kim Kardashian was the top trending person in Ireland, while Robin Williams was the top trending actor and Jennifer Lawrence was the top trending actress.
Some of it is slightly less predictable, however.
It was a year of big television shows - House of Cards, Game of Thrones - but none of these could surpass the might of Peppa Pig, which topped the list of the top trending television shows.
Meanwhile, one of the most popular searches on Google is ‘How to’. The Irish results show that people frequently search for how to draw, how to knit, and how to meditate. The second most popular answer, however? How to shift.
And just for the record, here’s what you get when you search for that:
The statistics from Google don’t give the volume of searches, or rank the most popular searches of all (so, for example, porn doesn’t show up on any of the lists). But they do give a good summary of the things that people in Ireland were talking about this year.
Here’s more of the results.
Top News Stories:
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Top trending people:
Francois Mori / AP Photo Francois Mori / AP Photo / AP Photo
Top trending movies:
Music artists
Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Mark Humphrey / AP Photo / AP Photo
Sports personalities:
PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images
Recipes:
Joe Giddens / PA Joe Giddens / PA / PA
How to…?
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