If you needed 2016 neatly summed up, then the top ten most searched terms on Google should just about do it.
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Google regularly collects data and forms top 10 lists.
Reflecting what a varied (if nothing else) year that we've had, both the UK and the worldwide list include "Donald Trump", "Pokemon Go" and "Deadpool".
You can see the full lists by clicking next:
Top Trending Searches UK
1. Euro 2016
2. Pokemon Go
3. David Bowie
4. Donald Trump
5. Prince
6. EU Referendum / Brexit
7. Alan Rickman
8. Olympics
9. US Election
10. Deadpool
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Top Trending Searches Worldwide
1. Pokemon Go
2. iPhone 7
3. Donald Trump
4. Prince
5. Powerball
6. David Bowie
7. Deadpool
8. Olympics
9. Slither.io
10. Suicide Squad
Google also dropped some more detailed search results for each country.
They revealed that in the UK we were wondering about Pokemon Go, Brexit, and the single market the most:
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Over in entertainment, and we were googling a lot of reality TV stars
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On the politician list, Donald Trump was (obviously) at the top.
He was closely followed by new British Prime Minister Theresa May, Jo Cox (who was murdered in June), and Hillary Clinton.
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On the “how to” list, we were asking “how to play pokemon go”, “how to lose weight well”, and “how to get an Irish passport”.
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