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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:
Top trending people:
Top trending movies:
Music artists
Sports personalities:
Recipes:
How to…?
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What about porn?? I’d say it was number one by a mile. (But not in my house)
It is in my house!!
I was thinking the same as I went down the list. If Porn isn’t there it’s a made up list there is no two ways about it cause everyone I know including myself is a w@nker
Sorry, I should say below or earlier on today.
@Tom: Either they don’t want to know the porn habits of Ireland or they don’t want us to know that they know our porn habits.
I spotted a few names there from re fappening. So porn is there.
Definition of my worst nightmare: Gathering every person I know or have ever met, sitting them all in one big room and then read my internet history aloud.
It’s nice to see people are still searching for Madeline McCann. But I’m pretty sure a Google search won’t find her.
Garth Brooks was more popular than Ebola =/
And 100 times more deadly!
That should be the tag line for his new album…
Ebola makes you bleed through your eyes, whilst Brooks makes you bleed through your ears.
What a rack!
Unrelated… why does the journal such a high amount of updates recently. Why???
Darn kids
How to shift
I find this hilarious! Glad to see we have our priorities in order!!
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t do a search for pictures of Garth Brooks ass in tight jeans.
More girls should be searching how to squat, that’s the real issue here.
Well this is embarrassing.
It’s a tragic reflection on society in Ireland in general when you have red neck hacks like Gareth Brooks who commands such popularity, mind you the majority are culchies who live in a parallel universe, still wear boot cut wrangler jeans with George Webb shoes and grandfather shirts.
Surely the anti water debacle has to be up there, Google being selective not mentioning porn either
For Christ’s sake, one more time, it’s GARTH Brooks. There is no celebrity GARETH Brooks, there never was a celebrity GARETH Brooks. Say the goddam name PROPERLY!!!!
It seems to matter to you…….
What is the significance of Gene Wilder dressing as an oompa loompa while pouting beside Kim Kardashian?
This really shows the average level of intelligence….
Think of the poor greyhounds, recycled…..
Madeleine Mc Cann was loike sooooooo 2007
I’m surprised those tv series’ didn’t make it into some more of the top 10 lists! I absolutely love Game of Cards and House of Thrones! I’m so cool and with it!
Honestly though, only thing I searched out of any of these lists was how to make a chicken curry because I was too lazy to walk around to the take away.
Once it was Saints, scholars and scientists who use to inspire people but now it is attention seeking prostitutes, what is it now American False Idol?
I’d like to have seen top business searches (after hotels in ……and restaurants in ……)
Very interesting!
What if Google was a guy … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B759dzymyoc
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