Most popular Google searches: Powerball, Prince, Hurricane Matthew

Most popular Google searches: Powerball, Prince, Hurricane Matthew

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google has released its annual list of the year’s most popular searches, offering another simple — but revealing — glimpse into the nation’s psyche. In 2016, money, music, and natural disasters took up the top three spots in the form of the searches “Powerball”, “Prince” and “Hurricane Matthew”. They’re all deserving of attention: the Powerball jackpot in January was $1.56 billion — the biggest in the world; Prince, who died in April at the age of 57, was a titan of the music world; and Hurricane Matthew, which rocked the Western Atlantic in late September and early October, is estimated to have cause some 1,600 deaths and $10.5 billion in damage, The Verge said.

Surprisingly, the year’s political upheavals did not figure higher in the list. “Trump,” “Election,” and “Hillary Clinton” took the 8th, 9th, and 10th spots respectively, but they were still outranked by Pokémon Go (4th), the Olympics (6th), David Bowie (7th), and — weirdly — “Slither.io” (5th). Slither.io, if you’re not familiar, is an online, multiplayer version of Snake, where you roam around a featureless landscape, gobble up mysterious energy balls, and try not to be destroyed by larger players who can kill you with a single touch. Sure, it’s a bit of an unexpected entrant in the year’s top 10 searches, but at least it captures the apocalyptic vibe of 2016.

You can check out the full list of top searches, top searches for news topics, and top searches for people (excluding deaths) below:

TOP SEARCHES OF 2016

Powerball

Prince

Hurricane Matthew

Pokémon Go

Slither.io

Olympics

David Bowie

Trump

Election

Hillary Clinton

TOP NEWS SEARCHES OF 2016

Olympics

Elections

Orlando shooting

Brexit

Zika virus

El Chapo

Brussels

Nice, France

Panama Papers

Aleppo

TOP PEOPLE SEARCHES (EXCLUDING DEATHS) OF 2016

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton

Michael Phelps

Bernie Sanders

Steven Avery

Ryan Lochte

Simone Biles

Cam Newton

Usain Bolt

Kevin Durant

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