Unbelievable facts
Each year, search engines publish a list of the topics we've been searching for the most in the past 12 months.
According to a survey of Google's most popular searches in 2014, the world was most interested in the death of actor Robin Williams, the World Cup, and Ebola.
The list of the world's leading searches also includes the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Ice Bucket Challenge, the Flappy Bird mobile game and the winner of the contest Eurovision Conchita Wurst.
As always, the deaths of famous people dominated the search list, and Google created an entire category dedicated to celebrities who left this year.
In addition, people often turn to search queries in search of answers to questions. The list of the most popular questions “What is…?” there were requests like Ebola, bitcoin, and asphyxia.
The 10 most popular Google searches in the world
1. Robin Williams
2. Football World Cup
3. Ebola
4. Malaysia Airlines
5. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
6. Flappy Bird
7. Conchita Wurst
8. ISIS
9. Cold heart
10. Sochi Olympics
Search statistics
The 10 most popular searches in Russia
1. Sochi 2014
2. Zhanna Friske
3. Fizruk
4. Eurovision 2014
5. Crimea
6. Chernobyl. Exclusion zone
7. Medal standings
8. Mockingbird smile
9. Ukraine News
10. iPhone 6
People of 2014 Lifehack of the Year or what…? The books of 2014
1. Zhanna Friske 1. Paint eggs 1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. Yulia Lipnitskaya 2. Pelageya lost weight 2. Mockingbird smile
3. Robin Williams 3. Complete 2048 3. Pit
4. Conchita Wurst 4. Breed a millionaire 4. Divergent
5. Evgeny Plushenko 5. Being a man 5. The gifts of the Magi
6. Adelina Sotnikova 6. Weave a choker 6. Human fate
7. Natalya Poklonskaya 7. Enable reindeer gauge 7. Viy
8. Michael Schumacher 8. Become Queen 8. Kamasutra
9. Jennifer Lawrence 9. Light a car 9. Disappeared
10. Viktor Yanukovych 10. Earn Bitcoin 10. Dizziness
The most popular Yandex searches in 2014
Yandex also published an overview of the most popular searches by category, such as events, movies, TV shows, people (men and women) of the year, sports, music, and others.
The search was also dominated by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, as well as events in Ukraine and Crimea, the growth of the dollar, Ebola, the transition to winter time and other topics.
